The Abacus and the Sword

The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910

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Peter Duus

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Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

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What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the 20th century? This book examines Meiji expansionism in its study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. It shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s. Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword. While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism" shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-a-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a social histo

Author Biography:

Peter Duus is William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University. He is author of Feudalism in Japan, (2nd ed. 1993), editor of The Cambridge History of Japan Vol. 6 (1989), and coeditor of The Japanese Informal Empire in Japan, 1895-1937 (1991).

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April 24th, 1998

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Peter Duus

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Professional & Vocational

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18 b-w illustrations, 15 tables, 1 map

Pages

498

Series

Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

Dimensions

152x229x38

ISBN-13

9780520213616

Product ID

3889173

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