Matsuda, Pacific worlds: A history of seas,peoples, and cultures (Cambridge, 2012). At the same time, few yet specifically delve into the Pacific Ocean's marginal seas along the Asian coastline. Robert D. Kaplan, Asia's cauldron: The South China Sea and the end of a stable Pacific (New York, 2015) provides an overview to various countries' historical contestation over this sea; Tim F. Liao, Kimie Hara and Krista Wiegand, The China-Japan border dispute: Islands of contention in multidisciplinary perspective (Burlington, VT, 2015) examine similar matters in the East China Sea. Historical and historiographical consideration of the East Sea/Sea of Japan in underdeveloped not least because it is embroiled in issues of decolonisation. From a Japanese perspective, therefore, the most balanced and broad-minded approach lies first in considering the question of Japan itself. Paramount in this vein is Amino Yoshihiko, Rethinking Japanese history, trans. Alan Christy (Ann Arbor, MI, 2012); and for interpretive understanding of early modern Japanese visions of the world around them, David L. Howell, Geographies of identity in nineteenth-century Japan (Berkeley, CA, 2005). A path-breaking consideration of the Japanese move to its northern territories is Brett L. Walker, The conquest of Ainu lands: Ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590-1800 (Berkeley, CA, 2006). Also important is Karen Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko and Cary Karacas, eds., Cartographic Japan: A history in maps (Chicago, IL, 2016). For consideration of this sea through the lens of Korean history and historiography, see Soh Jeong-Cheol and Park Young-Min, eds., East Sea or Sea of Japan: History and truths (Seoul, 2015). In addition, Peter E. Raper, Kim Jin Hyun, Lee Ki-suk and Choo Sung-jae, eds., Geographical issues on maritime names: Special reference to the East Sea (Seoul, 2010) places similar historical issues on a broader, transnational scale. Also important is William Wayne Ferris, ‘Ancient Japan's Korea connection', Korean Studies, 20 (1996): 1-22, to parse histories of the transfer of knowledge and material culture. Equally important, moreover, is consideration of indigenous views in Michael Ashkenazi, Handbook of Japanese mythology (New York, 2008); and for broader, comparative understanding, see Josh Reid, The sea is my country: The maritime world of the Makahs, an indigenous borderlands people (New Haven, CT, 2015); finally, Nancy Shoemaker, Native American whalemen and the world: The contingency of race (Chapel Hill, NC, 2015) introduces an entirely new understanding of ocean transfer and contact during the modern era.

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Source: Armitage David, Bashford Alison et al. (eds.). Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press,2018. — 338 p.. 2018

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