The history of sugar production is often assumed to be an Atlantic World story. But from the mid-nineteenth century, Pacific islands became key players in industrial sugar production, thanks to the availability of indentured Asian labor. Focusing particularly on Japanese migrants, “Trans-plantation” offers new perspectives on global entanglements of labor, colonialism and sugar plantations.
Inhalt
Martin Dusinberre and Mariko IijimaEditorial. Transplantation: Sugar and Imperial Practice in Japan’s Pacific 325
Themenschwerpunkt: Transplantation
Martin DusinberreThe Changing Face of Labour between Hawai‘i, Japan and colonial Taiwan 336
Mariko IijimaSugar Islands in the Pacific in the Early Twentieth Century: Taiwan as a Protégé of Hawai‘i 361
Miki Tsubota-NakanishiThe Absence of Plantations in the Taiwanese Sugar Industry: Problems of Land and Labour under Japanese Rule 385
Akiko MoriA History of the Excluded: Rethinking the Sugar Industry in the Northern Mariana Islands under Japanese Rule 410
Lektüren
Julien DemadeProduire un fait scientifique. Beveridge et le Comité international d’histoire des prix Johanna Haupt (Zürich) 435
Harriet ScharnbergDie „Judenfrage“ im Bild. Der Antisemitismus in nationalsozialistischen Fotoreportagen Christoph Kreutzmüller (Berlin) 437
Siglinde ClementiKörper, Selbst und Melancholie. Die Selbstzeugnisse der Landadeligen Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) Sebastian Kühn (Hannover/Berlin) 438
Nadine AmslerJesuits & Matriarchs. Domestic Worship in Early Modern China Jon Mathieu (Luzern) 440
Laura FahnenbruckEin(ver)nehmen. Sexualität und Alltag von Wehrmachtssoldaten in den besetzten Niederlanden Robert Sommer (Berlin) 442