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The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 / Sidney Xu Lu, Michigan State University

Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapur : Cambridge University Press, July 2019

1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 310 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: The making of Japanese settler colonialism / Lu, Sidney Xu (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-68758-4 (ebook)

978-1-108-71231-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-108-48242-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1111851141     

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108687584

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*Japan ; Expansion ; Malthusianismus ; Geschichte 1868-1961     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Malthusianism ; Demographic transition -- Japan ; Japan -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century ; Japan -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century ; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century ; Japan -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century ; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1868-

Malthusianism ; Demographic transition ; Japan ; Japan ; Colonies ; History ; 19th century ; Japan ; Colonies ; History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; 19th century ; Japan ; Emigration and immigration ; History ; 20th century ; Japan ; Foreign relations ; 1868-

This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history.