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This Book Focuses On The Japanese Encounter With The Americans In The Mid-nineteenth Century, An Episode That Took Place Rather Late In The Age Of Discovery, As The Last Unknown Lands Of Africa And Asia Were Being Probed By Western Merchants, Explorers, And Travelers. Most Of The Documents Assembled Here -- Poems And Political Pamphlets, Official Memorials And Private Journals, Newspaper Reports And Eyewitness Accounts -- Were Written (or Drawn) By The Japanese, For Whom The Encounter Raised The Question Of National Survival. Their Contents Reveal The Ignorance And Curiosity, The Anxiety And Confusion, The Admiration And Disillusion That Attended The Meeting Of These Two Rather Different Cultures. - Preface. Focuses On The Japanese Encounter With The Americans In The Mid-nineteenth Century. Includes Poems, Political Pamphlets, Official Memorials, Private Journals, Newspaper Reports And Eyewitness Accounts. Part One. The Japanese Discovery Of America -- Japan's Isolation Policy -- America's Approach To Japan -- The Americans As Barbarians -- Observing The Americans -- Interpreting The Americans -- Rejecting The American Model -- The American Discovery Of Japan -- Part Two. The Docum

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Author

with an introduction by Peter Duus

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312116811

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, Government & Politics