On the frontiers of history : rethinking east Asian borders /
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 h...
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Acton, A.C.T. :
Australian National University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Global thinkers series.
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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.