The Pioneer in Yokohama - A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port

Informationen zum Autor Martha Chaiklin is Assistant Professor of History! University of Pittsburgh. Klappentext In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s! Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic! military! and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan. A general Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background as well as a brief biography of De Coningh; substantial footnotes explain those terms! names! and cultural references that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. Thirteen illustrations are included! as are a chronology of events! a bibliography! and an index. Zusammenfassung Translation of 2nd volume of memoir entitled Ontmoetingen ter zee en te land [Adventures at sea and on land]! published in 1879 by W.C. De Graaff! Haarlem! Netherlands.

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• Autori: C. T. van Assendelft de Coningh, C. T. Assendelft de Coningh, C T Assendelft Coningh, C. T. Assendelft de Coningh, C. T. Assendelft/ Chaiklin De Coningh, C.T. Assendelft de Coningh
• Con la collaborazione di: Martha Chaiklin (Traduzione)
• Editore: Hackett Publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781603848374
• ISBN: 978-1-60384-837-4
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Hackett Classics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni