UID:
almafu_9959228573402883
Format:
1 online resource (264 p.)
ISBN:
1-4426-6422-3
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1-4426-6421-5
Series Statement:
Japan and Global Society
Content:
The first book-length study of Kōbe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.
Note:
Setting the stage : the role of ports in the encounter between East and West in Japan -- The creation of Kōbe's foreign concession -- Establishing municipal government and services in the concession -- Forging an economy : the basis for mercantile trade -- Finding a mercantile staple for Kōbe : the tea and silk trades -- The morphology of the settlement and the development of a pleasing townscape -- Life at the end of the world : forming an expatriate society in Kōbe -- Measuring success in the concession.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-4602-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4426-1416-1
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
;
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442664210
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