Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 (Japan and Global Society) - Softcover

Ennals, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1442614161 ISBN 13: 9781442614161

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2013

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'Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.' -- Herald Feuss Pacific Affairs; June 2015

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After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. Kobe was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements. The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of Kobe during these critical decades of growth and development.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1442614161
• ISBN 13: 9781442614161
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264