On the Frontiers of History
Subtitle: Rethinking East Asian Borders
Series: Global Thinkers Series
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2020-08
Place of publication: Acton ACT 2601, Australia
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781760463700
Copyright date: 2020
First sentence: The date is 1 August 1996, and I am aboard a ferry as it sets off from the northern Japanese port of Wakkanai on the sea crossing to Korsakov, on the Russian island of Sakhalin.
Table of contents: label: List of Illustrations
title: vii; label: Introduction
title: 1; label: 1. Anti-Area Studies Revisited
title: 7; label: 2. Mapping Time and Space
title: 25; label: 3. ‘Tartary’ in the Reshaping of Historical Thought
title: 47; label: 4. Unthinking Civilisation: An Imbricated History of the Okhotsk Region
title: 71; label: 5. The Telescope and the Tinderbox: Rediscovering La Pérouse in the North Pacific
title: 107; label: 6. Lines in the Snow: The Making of the Russo–Japanese Frontier
title: 139; label: 7. Indigeneity and Modernity in Colonial Karafuto
title: 165; label: 8. Japan and its Region: From Tartary to the Emergence of the New Area Studies
title: 195; label: Concluding Thoughts: On the Value of Small Histories
title: 233