Victorians in Japan - In and around the Treaty Ports

An anthology of impressions, ''snapshots'' and anecdotes, this collection of vignettes conveys vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty ports and their vicinity. This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself.First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.>

Product details

• Authors: Hugh Cortazzi, Cortazzi Hugh
• Assisted by: Hugh Cortazzi (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.12.2012
• EAN: 9781780939759
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-975-9
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Japan, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Economic history, Political science & theory, Asian History, Political science and theory