From its creation in the early twentieth century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Focusing on Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, Alexis Dudden gives long-needed attention to the intellectual history of the empire and brings to light presumptions of the twentieth century's so-called international system by describing its most powerful-and most often overlooked-member's engagement with that system.
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18 released booksStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is a 18-book series first released in 1985 with contributions by Laurel Kendall, Dae-Sook Suh, and Roderick MacFarquhar.
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