Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japa
"Like all empires, Japan’s prewar empire encompassed diverse territories as well as a variety of political forms for governing such spaces. This book focuses
This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including
Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbor