Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945

by Jun Uchida

Book Overview

Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians--merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers--left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and only secondarily by national interest, their mundane lives and the state's ambitions were inextricably entwined in the rise of imperial Japan. Despite having formed one of the largest colonial communities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674492021
• ISBN13: 9780674492028
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"