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The Abacus and the Sword - The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Paperback, New ed)
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The Abacus and the Sword - The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power, 4
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What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western
colonial power at the turn of the 20th century? This book examines
Meiji expansionism in its study of Japan's acquisition of Korea,
the largest of its colonial possessions. It 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-a-vis the West. Along with his detailed diplomatic and economic
history, Duus offers a social histo
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