The allure of empire : American encounters with Asians in the age of transpacific expansion and exclusion / Chris Suh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suh, Chris, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

Japan.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Japan--Foreign relations--1912-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Tracing how American ideas about race in the Pacific were made and remade on the imperial stage and how these ideas shaped US foreign and immigration policies before World War II, this title examines how the United States emerged as a Pacific power by collaborating with Japan to maintain an imperial order across the Pacific and how this cooperation depended on positive assessment of Japan's colonial rule of Japan.

Contents:

Introduction: Seeing Race beyond the Color Line

1. Empires of Reform: The United States, Japan, and the End of Korean Sovereignty, 1904-​1905

2. Between Empire and Exclusion: The Professional Class at the Helm of Anti-​Japanese Politics, 1905-​1915

3. Uplifting the "Subject Races": American Missionary Diplomacy and the Politics of Comparative Racialization, 1905-​1919

4. Empires of Exclusion: The Abrogation of the Gentlemen's Agreement, 1919-​1924

5. Faith in Facts: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Quest for International Peace, 1925-​1933

6. Toward a New Order: The End of the Inter-​Imperial Relationship across the Color Line, 1933-​1941

Epilogue: The World Empires Made

Note on Sources and Abbreviations.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 22, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-763165-7

0-19-763164-9

0-19-763163-0