The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan 1853-1870

by Pat Barr

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century Japan was pristine, inviolate and feudal, ruled by the legendary Shogun and the sacred puppet-Emperor, the Mikado. Foreigners were despised and feared as 'hairy barbarians'; for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140095772
• ISBN13: 9780140095777
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.