Provincializing Empire

Jun Uchida is Asian Cultures and Society Professor and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876–1945.

• ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Map of Japan and the Pacific World Introduction Part One. Ōmi Merchants in the Early Modern Era1. The Rise of Ōmi Shōnin as Diasporic Traders 2. At the Nexus of Colonialism and Capitalism in Hokkaido Part Two. Ōmi Merchants as a Model of Expansion3. A Vision of Transpacific Expansion from the Periphery 4. The Production of Global Ōmi Shōnin Part Three. Ōmi Merchants across the Transpacific Diaspora5. The “Gōshū Zaibatsu” in Japan’s Cotton Empire 6. Ōmi Merchants in the Colonial World of Retail 7. A Shiga Immigrant Diaspora in Canada ConclusionNotes Bibliography Glossary-Index

"Jun Uchida’s magnificent new book. . . . Speaks not merely to the historiography of modern Japan but to wider debates about evolutions in imperial practices across an alleged early modern/modern rupture. . . . She has pushed scholars to understand ‘provincializing’ in a way different from Chakrabarty’s: one that pays real attention to local voices, ideas, and practices."