The American Merchant Experience In Nineteenth Century Japan
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The American Merchant Experience In Nineteenth Century Japan
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Author : Kevin C. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
The American Merchant Experience In Nineteenth Century Japan written by Kevin C. Murphy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Business & Economics categories.
American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first book-length treatment of this group, Kevin Murphy explores their interactions with the Japanese in the treaty port system, how the Japanese leadership manipulated them to its own ends, and how the merchants themselves defined the limitations of American business in Japan through their ambiguous but deep concern with order and opportunity, restraint and dominance, and conservatism and dominance.
The American Merchant Experience In Nineteenth Century Japan
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language : en
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Release Date : 2003
The American Merchant Experience In Nineteenth Century Japan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Opening A Window To The West
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Author : Peter Ennals
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2014-01-01
Opening A Window To The West written by Peter Ennals and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with History categories.
The first book-length study of Kōbe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.
Commodities Ports And Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750
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Author : Anthony Webster
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-10-13
Commodities Ports And Asian Maritime Trade Since 1750 written by Anthony Webster and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-13 with History categories.
This book examines the role of mercantile networks in linking Asian economies to the global economy. It contains fourteen contributions on East, Southeast and South Asia covering the period from 1750 to the present.
Ethical Capitalism
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Author : Patrick Fridenson
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Ethical Capitalism written by Patrick Fridenson and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Ethical Capitalism is a volume of essays that tackles the thought, work, and legacy of Shibusawa Eiichi.
Made In Britain
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Author : Stephen Tuffnell
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Made In Britain written by Stephen Tuffnell and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with History categories.
The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed transfers of goods, culture, and capital that were integral to US nation-building. In British social clubs, emigrants forged relationships with elite Britons that were essential not only to tranquil transatlantic connections, but also to fighting southern slavery. As the United States descended into Civil War, emigrant Americans decisively shaped the Atlantic-wide battle for public opinion. Equally revered as informal ambassadors and feared as anti-republican contagions, these emigrants raised troubling questions about the relationship between nationhood, nationality, and foreign connection. Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States’ struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world’s most powerful empire of the time. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic relations.
The Mercantile Ethical Tradition In Edo Period Japan
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Author : Ichiro Horide
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-07-04
The Mercantile Ethical Tradition In Edo Period Japan written by Ichiro Horide and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book demonstrates that during Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603–1868) an ethical code existed among the merchant class comparable to that of the well-known Bushido. There is compelling evidence that contemporary merchants, who were widely and openly despised as immoral by the samurai, in fact acted in highly ethical ways in accordance with a well-articulated moral code. Japanese society was strictly stratified into four distinct and formally recognized classes: warrior, farmer, craftsman and merchant. From the warriors’ perspective, the merchants, at the base of the social order, had no virtue, and existed only to skim profits as middlemen between producers and consumers. But were these accusations correct? Were the merchants really unethical beings who engaged in unfair business practices? There is ample evidence that negates the ubiquitous slanders of the warrior class and suggests that merchants – no less than the warriors – possessed and acted in accordance with a well-developed ethical code, a spirit that may be called shonindo or “The Way of the Merchant.” This book examines whether a comparison of shonindo, depicting the ethical point of view of the merchant class, and Bushido, embodying that of the warrior class, reveals that shonindo may have in fact surpassed Bushido in some aspects. Comparing contemporarily published historical documents concerning both shonindo and Bushido, as well as Inazo Nitobe’s classic work Bushido: The Soul of Japan, published in 1900, the author examines how Bushido surpassed shonindo in that warriors were willing to die for their strict ethical code. Shonindo, however, may have surpassed Bushido in that merchants were liberal, willing to expand and extend application of their ethical beliefs into all aspects of everyday life for the overall benefit of society. This ethical code is compared with that of the conservative Bushido, which demonstrably proved not up to the task for the modernization and improved well-being of Japan. Ichiro Horide is professor emeritus of Reitaku University. Edward Yagi (Reitaku University) and Stanley J. Ziobro II (Trident Technical College) collaborated in the translation of the original Japanese manuscript into English.
Social Commentary On State And Society In Modern Japan
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Author : Yoneyuki Sugita
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-18
Social Commentary On State And Society In Modern Japan written by Yoneyuki Sugita and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-18 with Social Science categories.
This anthology analyzes societal and cultural aspects of modern Japan. It identifies the dynamic trend and undercurrent in Japan by addressing three key areas: modernization, internationalization, and memory and imagination. Using interdisciplinary and multi-language approaches, it discusses topics such as religion, ethnicity, civil society, art, public health, popular culture, war, identity and education. It is a valuable resource for scholars and graduate students with an interest in cutting-edge research analyses of Japanese / Asian studies.
Victorian Women Travellers In Meiji Japan
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Author : Lorraine Sterry
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2009-01-29
Victorian Women Travellers In Meiji Japan written by Lorraine Sterry and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Complementing other published works about travel by nineteenth-century women writers by locating and creating ‘space’ for Japan is missing within recent critical discourses on travel writing, it examines narratives of women writers who travelled to Japan from the mid-1850s onwards, and became a highly desirable travel destination thereafter.
With Sails Whitening Every Sea
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Author : Brian Rouleau
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-06
With Sails Whitening Every Sea written by Brian Rouleau and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-06 with History categories.
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions—barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows—shaped how the United States was perceived overseas. Rouleau details both the mariners’ "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation’s reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world’s oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation’s principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America’s master narrative beyond the water’s edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world.