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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: On the frontiers of history
    sub title: rethinking east Asian borders
  name:
    name part: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: aca
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 236 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Why is it that we so readily accept the boundary lines drawn around nations or around regions like 'Asia' as though they were natural and self-evident, when in fact they are so mutable and often so very arbitrary? What happens to people not only when the borders they seek to cross become heavily guarded, but also when new borders are drawn straight through the middle of their lives? The essays in this book address these questions by starting from small places on the borderlands of east Asia and looking outwards from the small towards the large, asking what these 'minor pasts' tell us about the grand narratives of history. In the process, it takes the reader on a journey from Renaissance European visions of 'Tartary,' through nineteenth-century racial theorizing, imperial cartography and indigenous experiences of modernity, to contemporary debates about Big History in an age of environmental crisis.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Anti-area studies revisited -- 2. Mapping time and space -- 3. 'Tartary' in the reshaping of historical thought -- 4. Unthinking civilisation: an imbricated history of the Okhotsk region -- 5. The telescope and the tinderbox: rediscovering la Pérouse in the north Pacific -- 6. Lines in the snow: the making of the Russo-Japanese frontier -- 7. Indigeneity and modernity in colonial Karafuto -- 8. Japan and its region: from Tartary to the emergence of the new area studies -- Concluding thoughts: on the value of small histories.
  note: by Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
    geographic code: a-ja---
    geographic code: e-ru---
  subject:
    geographic: Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Boundaries
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Boundaries
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
  subject:
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Japan
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    geographic: Sakhalin (Sakhalinskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
    topic: Influence
  classification: DK771.S2 M637 2020
  classification: 957/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Global thinkers series
  identifier: 9781760463694
  identifier: 1760463698
  identifier: 9781760463700
  identifier: 1760463701
  record info:
    record content source: ANV
    record creation date: 200806
    record change date: 20210422122658.0
    record identifier: in00004400459