The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History - Softcover

LaFeber, Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393318370 ISBN 13: 9780393318371

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of the Bancroft Prize. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occasionally violent clashes between Americans and Japanese began. Walter LaFeber, one of America's leading historians, has written the first book to tell the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan-a compact, homogenous, closely knit society terrified of disorder-and America-a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Using both American and Japanese sources, LaFeber provides the history behind the vicissitudes of rearming Japan, the present-day tensions in U.S.-Japan trade talks, Japan's continuing importance in financing America's huge deficit, and both nations' drive to develop China-a shadow that has darkened American-Japanese relations from the beginning. Walter LaFeber is the author of eight other books, including Inevitable Revolutions and The American Age, both available in Norton paperback.

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The Clash From the middle of the 19th century the Americans and Japanese have been economic and cultural rivals. This book tells the story behind the disagreements, tensions and skirmishes between these two economic power. Full description

Synopsis:

From the middle of the 19th century the Americans and Japanese have been economic and cultural rivals. This book tells the story behind the disagreements, tensions and skirmishes between these two economic power.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0393318370
• ISBN 13: 9780393318371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 546