Mooring the Global Archive: A Japanese Ship and Its Migrant Histories

by Martin Dusinberre

Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. His compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia. These stories bring together transpacific historiographies of settler colonialism, labour...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009346512
• ISBN13: 9781009346511
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"