TY - GEN T1 - The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. A1 - Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981- LA - English PP - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Cambridge_open_access_CR9781108687584 AB - This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history. This title is also available as Open Access. OP - 310 NO - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jul 2019). CN - JV5227 .L8 2019 SN - 9781108687584 (ebook) SN - 9781108482424 (hardback) SN - 9781108712316 (paperback) SN - 9781108482424 KW - Japan : Colonies : History : 19th century. KW - Japan : Colonies : History : 20th century. KW - Japan : Emigration and immigration : History : 19th century. KW - Japan : Emigration and immigration : History : 20th century. KW - Malthusianism. KW - Demographic transition : Japan. KW - Japan : Foreign relations : 1868- ER -