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The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: Volume 1: The by Ian Nish, Yoichi Kibata

By Ian Nish, Yoichi Kibata

Volume 1: The Political-Diplomatic size, 1600-1930 covers comprehensively the background of kinfolk among Japan and Britain from the earliest advertisement contacts firstly of the 17th century to 1930. the sphere is split into handy sessions in each one of which jap and British expert historians provide the culmination in their examine in parallel essays. This ebook bargains with diplomatic family among the 2 countries.

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Raffles had earlier attempted to reopen trade in Nagasaki in 1813 and 1814, under cover of the Dutch flag, fearing retribution for the bellicose visit of HMS Phaeton in 1808, the Feton go jiken. His knowledge of the company’s early stay in Japan was shallow and inaccurate. He misdated the granting of the trade privileges and the establishment of the factory as 1616 (M. ], Report on Japan, p. 240). 97. See Beasley, Great Britain and the Opening up of Japan, pp. 188–9. 98. On this remarkable transformation see Albert O.

In 1741 two ships were sent to Hudson’s Bay under the command of Christopher Middleton to search for the elusive Northwest Passage. In their instructions to Middleton, the Admiralty Lords told the captain to take possession of any uninhabited land as appropriate but that if he met with any ships ‘trading to the Western Countries eastward of Japan, or any Japaneze Ships, and you apprehend any danger from them, either from their Force or Number, you are to proceed no farther in the Discovery, but immediately to return, that Ships of sufficient Force may be sent out next Season, to begin a Trade, or make a Settlement, without any apprehension of disturbance from any powerful Nation on that Side’.

5. Okada Akio, Miura anjin (Tokyo: Sogensha, 1944). Corr, William Adams; Tateishi Yu, Ieyasu to Wireamu Adamusu (Tokyo: Kobunsha, 1996). Massarella, A World Elsewhere, p. 266. , passim. ), Tsuko ichiran, 6, pp. ), The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan 1613 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1900), p. lxxviii; Iwao Seiichi, Shuinsen boeki shi no kenkyu, second edition (Tokyo Yoshikawa Kobunko, 1985). Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1989). P. Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966), p.

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