Empire ascendant the British world, race, and the rise of Japan, 1894-1914 / Cees Heere.
| Author/creator | Heere, Cees |
| Other author | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. |
| Description | vi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | British world, race, and the rise of Japan, 1894-1914 |
| Contents | The Englands of East and West: Britain, Japan, Empire, and Race, 1894-1904 -- A War for Civilisation: The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 -- 'The Inalienable Right of the White Man': Contact and Competition in China -- Empire and Exclusion: The Japanese 'Immigration Crisis' -- The Pacific Problem: Race, Nationalism, and Imperial Defence -- Alliance and Empire: British Policy and the 'Japanese Question', 1911-1914. |
| Abstract | In 1902, the British government concluded a defensive alliance with Japan, a state that had surprised much of the world with its sudden rise to prominence. For the next two decades, the Anglo-Japanese alliance would hold the balance of power in East Asia, shielding Japan as it cemented its regional position, and allowing Britain to concentrate on meeting the German challenge in Europe. Yet it was also a relationship shaped by its contradictions. Empire Ascendant examines how officials and commentators across the British imperial system wrestled with the implications of Japan's unique status as an Asian power in an international order dominated by European colonial empires. On the settlement frontiers of Australasia and North America, white colonial elites formulated their own responses to the growth of Japan's power, charged by the twinned forces of colonial nationalism and racial anxiety, as they designed immigration laws to exclude Japanese migrants, developed autonomous military and naval forces, and pressed Britain to rally behind their vision of a 'white empire'. Yet at the same time, the alliance legitimised Japan's participation in great-power diplomacy, and worked to counteract racist notions of a 'yellow peril'. By the late 1900s, Japan stood at the centre of a series of escalating inter-imperial disputes over foreign policy, defence, migration, and ultimately, over the future of the British imperial system itself. This account weaves together studies of diplomacy, strategy, and imperial relations to pose searching questions about how Japan's entry into the 'family of civilised nations' shaped, and was shaped by, ideologies of race. -- back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-215) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019945423 |
| ISBN | 9780198837398 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0198837399 hardcover |
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