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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Allure of Empire offers a thought-provoking and illuminating narrative of mutual attractions and collusions between self-proclaimed progressive empires. Taking readers from Korea to Cuba and California via the Philippines, and from Washington, DC, back to East Asia via Hawai'i, this book interweaves the separate(d) stories of immigration politics, military conquest, missionary expansionism, social science research, and global racial struggle into a coherent history of the imperial Pacific. This is transimperial scholarship at its best. * Eiichiro Azuma, author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire *
Chris Suh's masterful book follows the Pacific nations, especially Japan, the United States, and colonies over two centuries framed by the 'Yellow Peril.' Suh's narrative addresses elaborate ideologies, racial hierarchy, politics, and diplomacy. * Thomas Bender, author of Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History *
Table of ContentsNote on Romanization Acknowledgments Introduction: Seeing Race Beyond the Color Line Chapter 1: Empires of Reform: The United States, Japan, and the End of Korean Sovereignty, 1904-1905 Chapter 2: Between Empire and Exclusion: The Professional Class at the Helm of Anti-Japanese Politics, 1905-1915 Chapter 3: Uplifting the "Subject Races": American Missionary Diplomacy and the Politics of Comparative Racialization, 1905-1919 Chapter 4: Empires of Exclusion: The Abrogation of the Gentlemen's Agreement, 1919-1924 Chapter 5: Faith in Facts: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Quest for International Peace, 1925-1933 Chapter 6: Toward a New Order: The End of the Inter-Imperial Relationship across the Color Line, 1933-1941 Epilogue: The World Empires Made Note on Sources and Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
