Japan Rising

Kume Kunitake

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Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

0521735165 / 9780521735162

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 1871 Japan sent a high-ranking delegation to the USA and Europe, to negotiate treaties and trading agreements and to investigate how it might modernise its political and economic institutions. Led by the Foreign Minister Prince Tomomi Iwakura, the 'embassy' of politicians, courtiers and officials travelled extensively around the USA for eight months, before spending a further year examining the British manufacturing industry, German armaments and French culture. The Iwakura Embassy helped change the course of Japanese history, for the official report of this journey, compiled by Prince Iwakura's personal secretary, the Confucian scholar Kunitake Kume, was to play a key role in Japan's transformation into a modern industrial nation. The report was translated into English in five large volumes in 2002. This carefully prepared abridgement makes it accessible to a wider range of scholars and students, and to all who are interested in the remarkable rise of modern Japan.…

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Title
Japan Rising
Author
Kume Kunitake
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication year
2009
Condition
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Binding
Taschenbuch
Language
English
ISBN 10
0521735165
ISBN 13
9780521735162
Item weight
801 grams
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229x152x30 mm

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