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100	1		_aRüegg, Jonas _eauthor _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025510979 _1http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025510979
245	1	4	_aThe Kuroshio frontier : _bempire and environment in the making of Japan's Pacific / _cJonas Rüegg.
264		1	_aCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : _bCambridge University Press, _c2026.
300			_a1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
341	0		_bSingle logical reading order _2onix
341	0		_bTable of content navigation _2onix
341	0		_bIndex navigation _2onix
490	1		_aCambridge oceanic histories
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2025).
505	0		_aIntroduction : Japan, the Kuroshio, and the creation of a Pacific world -- The geophysics of Japan's terraqueous metabolism -- Maritime practice and virtual geography -- The invention of Japan's Pacific -- Harbingers of empire -- Naval technology and the geopolitics of the Kuroshio Highway -- Tokugawa colonialism and the symbolism of modern statehood -- Science, state, and piracy in the making of an imperial frontier -- South Sea romanticism and the emergence of frontier tycoons -- Epilogue : the unending Kuroshio frontier.
506	0		_aOpen Access. _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aThis big-picture narrative of modern Japan embeds the archipelago's history in its maritime context. Foregrounding the Kuroshio Current in the Pacific, Jonas Rüegg demonstrates how currents, winds, and animals created a dynamic context to economic, intellectual, and geopolitical reinventions of Japan over the past four centuries. He draws up a novel geography of conflicts and competitions in the making of 'modern' Japan, one that underlines little known actors, sites, and events which have previously been treated as peripheral. This book offers a framework that transcends conventional spatial and temporal categorizations of early modern and modern, shogunal and imperial, insular and global. Guiding the reader from seventeenth-century Pacific explorations to the "opening" of Japan by whalers, coolies, and castaways, and on to the competition over remote islands, Rüegg offers a greater perspective on the role of oceans in the Anthropocene. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
532	2		_aWARNING - Flashing hazard
532	8		_aLatest accessibility date: 20250911
651		0	_aJapan _xHistorical geography
651		0	_aJapan _xCivilization _y1600-1868 _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069370
651		0	_aJapan _xTerritorial expansion _xHistory
651		0	_aKuroshio _1http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073478
650		0	_aOcean and civilization _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093877
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781009534574
830		0	_aCambridge oceanic histories.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009534611
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