Mooring the Global Archive

Vorwort
Tracing a Japanese steamship's journeys in the 1880s-90s, this is the first analysis of archival methodologies in writing global history.

Autorentext
Martin Dusinberre is Professor for Global History at the University of Zurich.

Zusammenfassung
The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world.

Inhalt
Note on the Text; Preface; 1. Archival traps; 2. Between the archives; 3. Outside the archive; 4. Archival country, counter claims; 5. The archive and I; 6. The burned archive; Epilogue.