Sir Rutherford Alcock: First British Minister to Japan (1859-1865), Consul (1844-1859) and Minister (1865-1870) to China

By Robert Morton

Book Overview

Rutherford Alcock became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars in the 1830s. This book fills a major gap in the study of Japan's opening to the West from a British perspective, as well as Britain's relationship with East Asia as a whole, through the eyes of a brilliant, but complicated and contradictory figure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1041186142
• ISBN13: 9781041186144
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"