{"product_id":"in-search-of-our-frontier-9780520304383","title":"In Search of Our Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most ambitious and expansive studies yet undertaken in the field of Japanese migration history. . . . Azuma deftly unravels the complex and tangled history of Japanese overseas migration.\" * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"A landmark study that should definitively reshape research and teaching agendas for some time to come.\" * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a ground-breaking thesis, to date the boldest expression in English of ideas that have been percolating for more than a decade in research projects in Japan and elsewhere. Masterfully researched and boldly conceived, \u003ci\u003eIn Search of our Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e should begin to redefine the terms of Japanese imperialism for years to come.\" * H-Soz-Kult *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important and provocative contribution to the fields of Japanese and Japanese American history, as well as the global history of modern imperialism. Azuma has offered a new way to think about Japan’s empire, showing us how many of the institutions and societies of the formal empire had deep ties to the informal empire of Japanese America.\" * H-Net *\u003cbr\u003e\"Azuma provides a valuable glimpse into a certain daring and confidence that accompanied Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state.\" * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Azuma has written a compelling new master narrative for Japan’s rise as a Pacific power . . . bringing East Asian Area Studies into direct engagement with the Ethnic History of Japanese America, makes \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Frontiers\u003c\/i\u003e an instant classic.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of American- East Asian Relations *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Our Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly ambitious and groundbreaking work in Japanese American studies.\" * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism,\u003cbr\u003e and Japan’s Adaptive Settler Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884–1907\u003cbr\u003e 1. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of Japanese\u003cbr\u003e Settler Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, Frontier\u003cbr\u003e Trotters, and Settlement Builders from across the Pacific\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT,1908–1928\u003cbr\u003e 3. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State and\u003cbr\u003e Private Settler Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e 4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrants\u003cbr\u003e on Japan’s Brazilian Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1924–1945\u003cbr\u003e 5. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal Manchuria\u003cbr\u003e Connections\u003cbr\u003e 6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration to\u003cbr\u003e Colonial Taiwan and the Nan’yō\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1932–1945\u003cbr\u003e 7. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of Expansionist\u003cbr\u003e Orthodoxy in Imperial Japan\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Education\u003cbr\u003e of the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler Colonialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the Continental\u003cbr\u003e United States and Hawai‘i\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402919682391,"sku":"9780520304383","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-search-of-our-frontier-9780520304383","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}