Japan's Ocean Borderlands

ISBN-13: 9781108489706 / Twarda / 2023

New York) Kreitman Paul (Columbia University

Opis

A global environmental history of Japan's disputed desert islands since the mid-nineteenth century.

Spis treści

Maps; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Naming Conventions; Introduction; 1. Bonins of Contention: Extraterritorial Empire and Borderland Citizenship in the 19th Century Pacific; 2. The Race to Marcus Island: Commodities and Colonisation in the North Pacific, 1885–1902; 3. Bird and Sovereignty Conservation in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, 1898–1911; 4. Sand Dunes and Soldiers: From Phosphate Mining to National Defence (1902–1939); 5. Disaster: The Abandonment of Japan's Remote Islands, 1902–1945; 6. Resurrecting the Torishima Albatross: Wild Birds and Sovereignty in Postwar Japan; 7. The Nature of the Senkaku Islands: Biodiversity Conservation in Okinawa, 1945–2013; Epilogue: Islands and Oceans; Appendix: Japanese islands abandoned, 1868-2013; Select Bibliography; Index.