Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu’s seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ice, timber-cutters, anti-Japanese guerrillas, smugglers, and other borderland actors also spilled outside the bounds set by Japanese colonizers, even as imperial border-making reinforced Japan’s wider political and economic power.
Drawing on archival sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, Seeley tells the story of the river and the imperial border haphazardly imposed on its surface from 1905 to 1945 to show how rivers and other nonhuman actors play an active role in border creation and maintenance. Emphasizing the tenuous, environmentally contingent nature of imperial border governance, Border of Water and Ice argues for the importance of understanding history across the different seasons.
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction: History, Religion, and the American Imagination of the Pacific
PART I: Hawai’i
1. Venerated Father: ’Missionaries, ’ Mission History, and Native Hawaiian Sovereignty
2. From the Beginning of the World: The Contested Terrain of History in Hawai’i
3. A Past That is Often Noble: Memory, ’Unwritten Literature, ’and the Consolidation of an American Hawai’i
PART II: The Philippines
4. A Sudden Turn of History: Providence, Crisis, and US Empirein the Philippines
5. A Dark and Troubled Past: Missionaries and Historicism inthe Philippines
6. A Chosen People: Filipino Nationalism, Protestant Missionaries, and the Long Philippine Past
Conclusion: The Purposes and Ambivalences of Missionary Knowledge Production
Om författaren
Joseph A. Seeley is Assistant Professor in the Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia. He specializes in the histories of Korea, the Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments and borderlands.
Fler e-böcker från samma författare (r) / Redaktör
228 009 E-böcker i denna kategori
