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Recollections Of Japan
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Author : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1819
Recollections Of Japan written by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1819 with Japan categories.
Recollections Of Japan
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Author : Hendrik Doeff
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2003
Recollections Of Japan written by Hendrik Doeff and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recollections of Japan is a personal account of living in Tokugawa Japan in the beginning of the nineteenth century, from a European's perspective. The author, Hendrik Doeff, chief of the United Dutch East India Company in Deshima, mastered the Japanese language, giving him a unique grasp of the Japanese culture which he describes with dispassionate, journalistic objectivity and respect. With Europe engulfed in the Napoleonic wars, Holland occupied by the French and the Dutch colonies usurped by the English, Hendrik Doeff successfully thwarted attempts by the Russians, English and Americans to break the Dutch monopoly on trade with Japan. Twice English ships forced themselves into the bay of Nagasaki and only Doeff's skill and diplomacy prevented a massacre of the English which in turn might have provoked a was between England and Japan and changed history. Doeff also describes in detail one of his three treks to the Court in Edo and the eagerness of Japanese scholars to obtain Western knowledge. There is a link with America's early history as the Dutch used American ships, to circumvent the capture of their own ships by the English. An embargo imposed by the United States Congress had idled many American ships who sailed to the Pacific instead. This book is a micro history and gives a delicious insight into international intrigues, national pride, hatreds and prejudices in a time of competitive monopoly seeking. Most of all, it reveals how supposedly "closed" Japan kept a window open to the world, especially the West, which explains its rapid transformation from a feudal to an industrialized nation after Perry opened Japan to the wider world.
Recollections Of Japan
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Author : Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1819
Recollections Of Japan written by Vasiliĭ Mikhaĭlovich Golovnin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1819 with Japan categories.
Three Times A Guest
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Author : Charles Alfred Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1979
Three Times A Guest written by Charles Alfred Fisher and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Recollections Of Japan
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Author : Constance Chappell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Recollections Of Japan written by Constance Chappell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Japan categories.
Mitford S Japan
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Author : Hugh Cortazzi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Mitford S Japan written by Hugh Cortazzi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with History categories.
As the preface to this new edition points out, Mitford (Algernon Bertram, the first Lord Redesdale) was a gifted writer whose descriptions of Japan, during the critical time of transition from a feudal to a modern state in the late nineteenth century, are a testimony to his narrative skills, accuracy and objective reporting - qualities which are sometimes overshadowed by the higher profile given to his contemporary Ernest Satow. Accordingly, this new paperback edition, which makes the Mitford memoirs available to a much wider audience, includes a wide selection of extracts from Mitford's bestselling Tales of Old Japan (1871) - what Mitford, according to Carmen Blacker, perceived as the essence of the Japanese spirit: 'heroic, ruthless, devotedly loyal, bloody and chivalrous'.
Recollections Of Japan 1863 1864
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Author : Sir Hamilton Pym Freer-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Recollections Of Japan 1863 1864 written by Sir Hamilton Pym Freer-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Japan categories.
Japan
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Author : Grace James
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Japan written by Grace James and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Japan categories.
Mitford S Japan
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Author : Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Mitford S Japan written by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.
Japanese Journeys
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Author : Geoffrey Bownas
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2005
Japanese Journeys written by Geoffrey Bownas and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Civilization categories.
Geoffrey Bownas, widely known for his writings, translations, broadcasts and commentaries relating to Japan, and an eminent Japanese Studies scholar, has at last completed a memoir. It is a historical record of some significance tracking Japan's post-war history from abject poverty to unimaginable prosperity as the world's second largest economy, and the 'lost' post-bubble years.