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Zusatztext [An] enjoyable, beautifully-researched and fascinating account of Japan a few years after what Western writers are pleased to call its “opening” in 1853. Informationen zum Autor Simon Partner is professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer (1999); Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (2004); and The Mayor of Aihara: A Japanese Villager and His Community, 1865–1925 (2009). Klappentext In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner¿s history of Yokahama as a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan¿s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences. Zusammenfassung In a narrative history rich in colorful detail, Simon Partner uses the story of an ordinary merchant farmer as a vantage point onto sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner’s history of Yokahama as a vibrant meeting place humanizes the story of Japan’s revolutionary 1860s and their profound consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and Illustrations Notes on the Text Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Out of Thin Air (1859–1860) 2. Years of Struggle (1860–1864) 3. Prosperity (1864–1866) 4. Transformation (1866–1873) Conclusion: The Power of a Place Tables Notes Bibliography Index
