
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868โ1961
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The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism
Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868โ1961
About this book
This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history. This title is also available as Open Access.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Names, Terms, and Translations
- Introduction: Malthusian Expansion and Settler Colonialism
- Part I Emergence, 1868โ1894
- Part II Transformation, 1894โ1924
- Part III Culmination, 1924โ1945
- Part IV Resurgence, 1945โ1961
- Conclusion: Rethinking Migration and Settler Colonialism in the Modern World
- Bibliography
- Index