Cees Heere

Empire Ascendant

The British World, Race, and the Rise of Japan, 1894-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

In a fresh study of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, Heere examines how the British imperial system wrestled with Japan's unique status as an Asian power. Empire Ascendant combines the study of diplomacy with issues of cultural representation, race, migration, and inter-imperial relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780198837398
• ISBN-10: 0198837399
• Artikelnr.: 58261259

Autorenporträt

Cees Heere is a postdoctoral researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies and Leiden University. His research focuses on international and imperial history, with a particular focus on race and migration in the British and American empires. He obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics. In 2015, he received the annual Pollard Prize from the Institute for Historical Research in London for his article on the imperial politics of immigration.

Inhaltsangabe

* Abbreviations
* Note on Names and Style
* Introduction
* 1: The Englands of East and West: Britain, Japan, Empire, and Race,
1894-1904
* 2: A War for Civilisation: The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
* 3: 'The Inalienable Right of the White Man': Contact and Competition
in China
* 4: Empire and Exclusion: The Japanese 'Immigration Crisis'
* 5: The Pacific Problem: Race, Nationalism, and Imperial Defence
* 6: Alliance and Empire: British Policy and the 'Japanese Question',
1911-1914
* Conclusion
* Bibliography