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Significant soil : settler colonialism and Japan's urban empire in Manchuria /

"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Dwyer, Emer Sinéad
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 377.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, the book demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers' determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire"--Provided by the publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-494) and index.
ISBN:9781684175529
1684175526