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Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California W&M ScholarWorks Arts & Sciences Articles Arts and Sciences 2013 They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California Cindy Hahamovitch William & Mary, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/aspubs Recommended Citation Hahamovitch, C. (2013). Don Mitchell. They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Arts and Sciences at W&M ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arts & Sciences Articles by an authorized administrator of W&M ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 874 Reviews of Books the Tokyo metropolis, she devotes a first contextualiz- notopes is more difficult. In contrast to Young’s close ing chapter to “World War One and the City Idea.” She reading of the local-history and literary movements, her explains the importance of the wartime period as a gen- perspective on second-city politics is formed from a uine turning point. It was at this “moment” that eco- greater distance. This may be because the evidence for nomic development shifted from the nation to the cit- explaining how individuals and group interacted to ef- ies. The sea change created new built environments fect political change is often inconclusive. Young does using novel materials and processes (e.g., concrete, show us sweeping before-and-after political changes in Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/118/3/874/43651 by William & Mary Libraries user on 05 November 2019 steel, electricity), a new if small middle class, and ten- the four cities, but we seldom get close enough to see sions between new social groups (workers versus man- who is acting politically on whom. Young also seems to agers, residents of the countryside versus people in first be somewhat of two minds about the importance of ge- cities, and the regional chronotope versus surrounding ography in influencing politics. In places she suggests hinterland). that geography fixed the limits of the possible and set Once Young establishes the profound shift around political parameters, but in her concluding chapter she 1918, she delves into the distinctive characteristics of argues for the importance of local agency. I prefer her interwar urbanization en route to answering her central final thoughts on this issue. Geographical determinism question: “How did the city become the center of mod- probably reached its end as new technologies became ern economic and social life?” (p. 31). The question is capable of overcoming environmental barriers. At a not simply answered, in that there are urban centers certain point, for example, the mountains and rivers of and then there is Tokyo. Consequently, while Young the “backside of Japan” (ura Nihon) probably became fittingly foregrounds the dynamic transformation in her more of an excuse for ignoring one region than a gen- select group of chronotopes, she also discusses how uine explanation of what could or could not be done. these national cities were peripheral bodies in an in- Young’s deeply layered work combining cultural and escapable orbit around the new national capital. urban history is a remarkable achievement that fills in In later chapters, Young moves to “urban biogra- some of the blank parts of Japan’s modern historical phy,” largely setting aside the Tokyo-periphery issue to map. Beyond the Metropolis deserves a wide readership concentrate on how local people, some re-planted after as a fundamental text on which others will surely rely a stint in the capital, re-created Okayama, Kanazawa, in building a history of modern urbanization beyond Niigata, and Sapporo as new cultural and social units. Tokyo. She brilliantly captures the Janus-faced essence of the MICHAEL LEWIS project. Her careful depiction of various local-history University of Sydney movements demonstrates the methods used to remake the past to provide local identity and valorize local au- YUKIKO KOSHIRO. Imperial Eclipse: Japan’s Strategic thority (and authorities, dead and living). While this Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. new past was created and consumed at schools, memo- (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Co- rialized in local histories, and made materially manifest lumbia University.) Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University at designated “famous sites and places” (meisho), a par- Press. 2013. Pp. xvi, 311. $39.95. allel project that associated the regional city with the future went full-steam ahead. Young associates the in- In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro argues that “[u]n- terwar re-creation of the regional city and modernity der the US military occupation, the Pacific War nar- through the lenses of the “exhibition boom,” at which rative eclipsed Japan’s Eurasian worldview and pro- local Babbittry ran rampant as regional city boosters duced Japan’s postwar amnesia about its colonial spent lavishly to demonstrate that everything was up to empire.” Aiming to “restore the comprehensive land- date in Kanazawa City and its counterparts. The effort scape of Japan’s war,” Koshiro “returns the Soviet showcased the technology and regional economic ad- Union to the scene and renames the conflict the Eur- vantages that inhered in the way modernity was being asian-Pacific War” (p. 1). popularly understood. This was a positive association The book’s central argument is that toward the end that was conjoined with anxieties about the “modern of the war, “Japanese war planners concluded that the girl” and the necessary tension between what future Soviet Union had significant connections with regional changes might hold for the recently remade and usually nationalists that could help check US hegemonic am- hagiographic urban biography. bitions in East Asia,” and “[t]hey hoped that Soviet Young’s sharpest, most convincing analysis is her presence in the region would achieve a desirable bal- tracing of the influence of the local-history movement ance of power vacuum created by the fall of Japan’s and activities of literary leaders in Tokyo and in the empire” (p. 2). The first two chapters suggest the for- regional cities. Her comprehension of the texts and gotten yet substantial presence of Russians in Japan, teasing out of the significance of local histories and the and Japan’s historical affinity to it. The following two capacity of local cultural heroes to create new social chapters demonstrate that in the early stages of the war and cultural spaces reads like a satisfying mystery story. with China, Japanese military officers and diplomats The clues are there, but the story is not without twists were getting accurate information on the strength of and turns; the end is unpredictable but convincing. the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), its tensions with Telling the political story behind the new urban chro- the USSR, and their respective influences in Korea. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW JUNE 2014 Asia 875 The next three chapters, on the process of ending the gap between English-language-based scholarship on war, argue that these officers and bureaucrats knew that modern Japanese history, which was previously domi- the USSR would eventually join the war and attack Ja- nated by the modernization theory, and Japanese-lan- pan. guage-based scholarship, which was written mostly in While Koshiro has consulted extensive diplomatic the Marxist framework. This once-significant gap is nar- and military archival and reprinted documents, a large rowing as more diverse angles are evident on both sides, part of her analysis is based on intelligence documents and more scholars are integrating scholarship in both Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/118/3/874/43651 by William & Mary Libraries user on 05 November 2019 created by the Japanese army units on the continent, languages. Works like this book will enhance this trend, and to a lesser extent in Korea, as well as materials from making the scholarship even richer and fuller. the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR), the Three last important points should be made. First, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), and the Imperial Koshiro’s statement about the “ultimate power” to be General Headquarters (IGHQ), and military orders to given to the Supreme Council for the Direction of War the garrisons in China. This part is a fascinating read, (p. 3) needs to be qualified, as Ito៮ Takashi elaborates which reveals the details of war situations on the con- in “Kaisetsu” (in Ito៮ Takashi and Takeda Tomoki, eds., tinent, and the extent and depth of Japan’s intelligence Shigemitsu Mamoru: Saiko៮ senso៮ shido៮ kaigi kiroku, operations in the area. shuki [2004], pp. 371, 373, 374, 377, 378). Second, cer- How were, however, these intelligence materials tain confusion in her understanding of the organiza- used for decision-making? Were key Japanese military tional structure can be detected in her use of the names officers, especially in the army, and other policymakers of the offices in charge of civilian intelligence activities. so ready to view these communist forces favorably, Koshino uses the term “the Cabinet Information Bu- rather than regarding communism as one of the biggest reau” for Naikaku jo៮ho៮bu (pp. 43, 44, 99, 109, 112, 113). threats to Japan’s national security, along with the Al- It is normally translated as “the Cabinet Information lied attacks? In the desperate last moment of the sur- Department,” which was created in September 1937 to vival of their nation, were they in a position to decide succeed the Cabinet Information Committee. She de- not to put up a strong resistance against the USSR’s scribes Jo៮ho៮ kyoku as “the Intelligence Bureau . of advance on the Manchurian and North Korean fronts, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs” (p. 48).
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