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Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640 - 1868

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Description for Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640 - 1868 Hardback. Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, this book challenges the largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages, 20 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Examining diplomacy, coastal defense, and foreign trade, this study demonstrates that while the shogunate created the broader framework, foreign relations were actually implemented through cooperative but sometimes competitive relationships with the Satsuma and Tsushima domains, which themselves held largely independent ties with neighboring states. Successive Tokugawa leaders also proactively ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674035775
SKU
V9780674035775
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About Robert I. Hellyer
Robert I. Hellyer is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University.

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