Culture, Power and Politics in Treaty-Port Japan, 1854-1899: Key Papers, Press and Contemporary Writings

by James E. Hoare

This two-volume collection brings together contemporary documentation and more recent scholarship to give a broad picture of the Japanese Treat Ports - Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hakodate, Shimoda and Niigata, Tokyo and Osaka - and their inhabitants at work and play. The material selected, together with the introduction and the bibliography, will show how the ports' existence and the Japanese struggle to end their special status, impacted on many aspects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898823618
• ISBN13: 9781898823612
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Renaissance Books
• Length: 700 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.2" x 10.0"