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Author Wildes, Harry Emerson

Title Aliens in the East : a New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse / Harry Emerson Wildes

Imprint Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
©1937

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Subject Japan -- Foreign relations
Contents Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- I. The Portuguese Pioneers: 1543-1585 -- II. Adams Aids the Kubo-Sama: 1586-1609 -- III. Insults and Massacres: 1611-1638 -- IV. Curbing the Dutchmen: 1638-1686 -- V. Aliens Are Enemies -- VI. Russia Becomes Curious: 1708-1742 -- VII. Washington, War God in Japan: 1771-1787 -- VIII. Kendrick, the First American: 1787-1791 -- IX. Prohibiting Heresies: 1792 -- X. Britons in the North: 1791-1797 -- XI. Overworked Ship's Papers: 1798-1803 -- XII. Revolts Attract Russians: 1804-1805 -- XIII. Beardless Lads Attack Japan -- XIV. Jailed in a Bird Cage: 1809-1813 -- XV. Only Deshima Is Dutch: 1813-1815 -- XVI. Britain Asks Admittance: 1816-1818 -- XVII. Harassing the Coast: 1819-1830 -- XVIII. Japan Refuses Charity: 1831-1837 -- XIX. Holland Advises Hospitality: 1838-1845 -- XX. The Americans Are Insistent: 1846-1847 -- XXI. The Navy Demands Freedom -- XXII. The Scholarly Seaman -- XXIII. Perry Refuses to Go Away -- XXIV. Japan Is Opened -- XXV. A Consul in Coventry -- XXVI. Japan Resents the Opening -- XXVII. The Bloody Years -- XXVIII. The Gunboats Force Peace -- XXIX. The Past Explains the Present -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index
Note In English
Summary The author examines the uneven course of Japan's foreign relations, from the earliest struggles of the Dutch, Portuguese and British to establish trade with the empire, to the diplomatic problems of the of the 1930s
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
ISBN 9781512808407
1512808407
Isn # 10.9783/9781512808407
OCLC # ocn979970697
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