{"product_id":"the-abacus-and-the-sword-the-japanese-penetration-of-korea-1895-1910-volume-4-paperback","title":"The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 Volume 4 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Duus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuus 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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-à-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a major historical work that, in the field of Japanese imperialism, will set a standard for careful and comprehensive analysis. \u003ci\u003eThe Abacus and the Sword\u003c\/i\u003e is the handiwork of a master historian.--Mark R. Peattie, author of \u003ci\u003eNan'yo: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese in Micronesia, 1885-1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book . . . deserves a wide readership, especially among East Asia history specialists, for it represents difficult and complex scholarship at its best. . . . It is clear from an analysis of his documentation that he put solid study into the Japan-Korea relationship problem, one of the most complex in modern East Asian history--the equivalent perhaps of the English-Irish relationship in Western History. . . . This book is . . . well worth reading, not only for East Asian specialists but for anyone fascinated by the mysteries of history.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilary Conroy, American Academy of Political Science\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Duus\u003c\/b\u003e is William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eFeudalism in Japan, \u003c\/i\u003e (2nd ed. 1993), editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge History of Japan\u003c\/i\u003e Vol. 6 (1989), and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Informal Empire in Japan, 1895-1937\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 498\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 24, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485055369394,"sku":"9780520213616","price":66.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/124bbac9faeb13378825d8fcb0c9529a.webp?v=1779283758","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-abacus-and-the-sword-the-japanese-penetration-of-korea-1895-1910-volume-4-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}