TY - BOOK ID - 77904018 TI - The abacus and the sword PY - 1995 VL - 4 SN - 0520920902 0585112592 9780520920903 9780585112596 0520086147 9780520086142 0520213610 9780520213616 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Japan KW - Korea KW - History KW - Relations KW - J3374.90 KW - J3374 KW - J4812.12 KW - J4810.80 KW - K9170 KW - K9165 KW - K9551.11 KW - K9540.60 KW - Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period -- annexation of Korea (1905-1945) KW - Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1868-1912) -- imperial expansion KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Asia -- Korea (South) KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Gendai (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century KW - Korea: History -- Japanese annexation period (1905-1945) KW - Korea: History -- Korean empire, Taehan cheguk (1895-1910) KW - Korea: International politics, law and relations -- Asia -- Japan KW - Korea: International politics, law and relations -- history -- modern period (1860s-[1945]), 20th century general KW - al-Yābān KW - Giappone KW - Government of Japan KW - Iapōnia KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Japam KW - Japani KW - Japão KW - Japon KW - Japonia KW - Japonsko KW - Japonya KW - Jih-pen KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Nihon KW - Nihon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nippon KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nipponkoku KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Riben KW - State of Japan KW - Yābān KW - Yapan KW - Yīpun KW - Zhāpān KW - Япония KW - اليابان KW - يابان KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - -Relations KW - -History KW - -Japan KW - International relations. KW - 1864-1912. KW - Japan. KW - Korea. KW - -J3374.90 KW - -International relations. KW - Jepun KW - Yapon KW - Yapon Ulus KW - I︠A︡pon KW - Япон KW - I︠A︡pon Uls KW - Япон Улс KW - -Relations - UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904018 AB - What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's drive for empire was part of a larger goal to become the economic, diplomatic, and strategic equal of the Western countries who had imposed a humiliating treaty settlement on the country in the 1850s.Duus maintains that two separate but interlinked processes, one political/military and the other economic, propelled Japan's imperialism. Every attempt at increasing Japanese political influence licensed new opportunities for trade, and each new push for Japanese economic interests buttressed, and sometimes justified, further political advances. The sword was the servant of the abacus, the abacus the agent of the sword.While suggesting that Meiji imperialism shared much with the Western colonial expansion that provided both model and context, Duus also argues that it was "backward imperialism" shaped by a sense of inferiority vis-à-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic history, Duus offers a unique social history that illuminates the motivations and lifestyles of the overseas Japanese of the time, as well as the views that contemporary Japanese had of themselves and their fellow Asians. ER -