Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780197135082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868
Author:
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780197135082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780197135082
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868
Author: William G. Beasley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy
Author: Mayako Shimamoto
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442250674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese Foreign Policy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442250674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Japanese Foreign Policy.
A History of Japan, 1582-1941
Author: L. M. Cullen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.
Collected Writings of W.G. Beasley
Author: William G. Beasley
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Bakufu and Meji Studies.
Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875
Author: Roy Hanashiro
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644873
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An analysis of the phenomenon of the Japanese adopting Western technology but resisting foreign domination during Meiji Japan. It is a fascinating study on the founding of the Japanese Imperial Mint, the role of its director Thomas William Kinder, the Meiji government's effort to adopt technology, but at the same time its struggle to maintain its authority at the Mint.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644873
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
An analysis of the phenomenon of the Japanese adopting Western technology but resisting foreign domination during Meiji Japan. It is a fascinating study on the founding of the Japanese Imperial Mint, the role of its director Thomas William Kinder, the Meiji government's effort to adopt technology, but at the same time its struggle to maintain its authority at the Mint.
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain
Author: Andrew Cobbing
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134250061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134250061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.
The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853–1873
Author: Paul Hendrix Clark
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624668909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had already fended off similarly unwelcome intrusions by the French, the Russians, the Dutch, and the British. These Western imperialists had the power and the means to force Japan into the kinds of treaties that would effectively spell the end of Japan’s autonomy, maybe even its existence as an independent country. At the same moment, Japan was also grappling with a serious insurrection, the death of an emperor, and the death of a shogun—as well as with a series of natural disasters and associated famines. The Japanese response to this incredible series of catastrophes would permanently alter the balance of geopolitical power around the world. Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and maneuvers of the major participants in the conflict and sets the "opening" of Japan in the context of broader global history. Selections from twenty-nine primary sources provide firsthand accounts of the event from a variety of perspectives. Several illustrations are also included, along with a note on historiographic interpretation.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624668909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had already fended off similarly unwelcome intrusions by the French, the Russians, the Dutch, and the British. These Western imperialists had the power and the means to force Japan into the kinds of treaties that would effectively spell the end of Japan’s autonomy, maybe even its existence as an independent country. At the same moment, Japan was also grappling with a serious insurrection, the death of an emperor, and the death of a shogun—as well as with a series of natural disasters and associated famines. The Japanese response to this incredible series of catastrophes would permanently alter the balance of geopolitical power around the world. Drawing on the best recent scholarship, this short introductory volume examines the motivations and maneuvers of the major participants in the conflict and sets the "opening" of Japan in the context of broader global history. Selections from twenty-nine primary sources provide firsthand accounts of the event from a variety of perspectives. Several illustrations are also included, along with a note on historiographic interpretation.
Sir Harry Parkes, British Representative in Japan, 1865-83
Author: Gordon Daniels
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781873410363
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan
Author: Ronald P. Toby
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804719520
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804719520
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book seeks to describe how Japan manipulated existing diplomatic channels to ensure national security. Rather, far from aiming at seclusion, Japan's diplomacy in the seventeenth century was orchestrated to achieve certain objectives, both outside the country and inside it. The aim was to build Japan into an autonomous center of its own. Since the country was "closed," elaborate and expensive foreign embassies were obliged to make the journey to Edo. Countries which were perceived as potential threats, such as Portugal and Spain, were excluded from this process. Only those such as the Chinese and the Dutch, with whom trade was recognized as desirable, were allowed a supervised presence in Japan itself. Closing the gates to Japan was not the object. Rather, carefully judging just when they should be open and shut was the aim.