Dr. Jonas Rüegg – Publications

ZORA Publication List

Publications

• 2025

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2025). Islands of the Kuroshio Frontier or Building the infrastructure of an archipelagic empire. In: Huebner, Stefan; Heé, Nadin; Miller, Ian J; Tsutsui, William M. Oceanic Japan: the archipelago in Pacific and global history. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 325-339.

• 2024

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2024). Oceanic knowledge and national space-time in pacific history. Verge: Studies in Global Asias, 10(2):111-137.
  • Rüegg, Jonas. Uhren und Kanonen für ein Reich im Umbruch. In: NZZ Geschichte, 51, 28 März 2024, 68-79.

• 2023

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2023). Early modern Japan and the problem of “drugs”. In: Vitale, Judith; Benesch, Oleg; Kingsberg, Miriam. Drugs and the politics of consumption in Japan. Leiden: Brill, 21-46.
  • Rüegg, Jonas (2023). Review of Tagliacozzo, Eric, In Asian waters: oceanic worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. - Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. H-Net Reviews:58318.

• 2022

  • Rüegg, Jonas. The Kuroshio Frontier: business, state and environment in the making of Japan's pacific. 2022, Harvard University.

• 2021

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2021). 小笠原諸島探検と近代科学 Ogasawara shotō tanken to kindai kagaku [The exploration of the Ogasawara Islands and modern science]. In: Aoki, Toshiyuki; Umihara, Ryō; Kutsuzawa, Nobutaka; Satō, Ken'ichi; Tanaka van Daalen, Isabel; Matsukata, Fuyuko. Yōgaku-shi kenkyū jiten 洋学史研究辞典 [Historical Encyclopedia of Western Studies]. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 301.
  • Rüegg, Jonas (2021). Currents and oceanic geographies of Japan’s unending frontier. Journal of Pacific History, 56(3):296-319.
  • Rüegg, Jonas (2021). Rezension zu: Lüttge Felix, Auf den Spuren des Wals. Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2020. H-Soz-Kult:online.

• 2018

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2018). Bakumatsu, Meiji: 19 seiki Genève ni okeru Nihon kenkyū 幕末・明治：19世紀ジュネーブに於ける日本研究 [Bakumatsu, Meiji: Japanese Studies in Geneva in the Late 19th Century]. In: Ōkawa, Shirō; Okamura, Tamio. Kokusai toshi Genève: shūkyō, shisō, seiji, keizai 国際都市ジュネーブ：宗教・思想・政治・経済 [The International City of Geneva: Religion, Thought, Politics and Economy]. Kyoto: Shōwadō, 62-70.

• 2017

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2017). Mapping the forgotten colony: the Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa Pivot to the Pacific. Cross-currents : East Asian history and culture review, 6(2):440-490.

• 2015

  • Rüegg, Jonas (2015). The challenges of publishing Japanese sources in 19th century Europe. kyoritsu.repo.nii.ac.jp: Kyoritsu Women's University & Junior College.
  • Rüegg, Jonas (2015). Aimé Humbert – Wertvorstellungen eines Bourgeois und das Japan der Bakumatsu-Zeit. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 69(1):47-71.