Brown Bag Lecture Book talk with Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of History at International Christian University, Tokyo Moderated by: Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In the spring of 1874 the Japanese government sent … [Read more...]
Statebuilding by Imposition: Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Reo Matsuzaki (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. How do modern states emerge from the turmoil of undergoverned spaces? This is the question Reo Matsuzaki ponders in Statebuilding by Imposition. Comparing Taiwan and the Philippines under the colonial rule of Japan and the United … [Read more...]
