Statebuilding by Imposition : : Resistance and Control in Colonial Taiwan and the Philippines / / Reo Matsuzaki.

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 States, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he shows...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Glossary
  • 1. Taiwan, the Philippines, and the Puzzle of Statebuilding
  • 2. A Theory of Statebuilding by Imposition
  • 3. The Polizeistaat
  • 4. The Administered Community
  • 5. The American Way
  • 6. State Involution
  • 7. From the Colonial Past to the Future of Statebuilding
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index