The Perry expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853-1873 : a short history with documents

The Perry expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853-1873 : a short history with documents /

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Main Author: Clark, Paul H., 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2020]
Series:Passages (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Subjects:
United States Naval Expedition to Japan > (1852-1854)
Japan > History > Restoration, 1853-1870.
Japan > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction
  • Japan at the Start of Tokugawa Rule
  • Four Classes of Society
  • Policy of Sakoku
  • Japan in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Economic and Political History in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Gunboat Diplomacy and Western Imperialism
  • Early European Efforts to Establish Diplomatic Relations with Japan
  • ch. Two Western Nations Attempt to Visit Japan
  • France
  • Great Britain
  • United States
  • Commodore Perry's Visit
  • Japanese Response
  • ch. Three Collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate
  • ch. Four Dawn of the Meiji Period
  • Iwakura Embassy (1871-1873)
  • Civilization and Enlightenment Movement
  • Conclusion
  • Note on Historiography
  • Documents
  • 1. Diminishing Resolve of the Samurai in Late Edo Japan (1796)
  • 2. Infanticide, Abortion, and the Effects of Poor Leadership in Agriculture (1827)
  • 3. Oshio Heihachiro's Public Proclamation as the 1837 Uprisings in Osaka Began
  • 4. Excerpt from "Report of Captain Lindenberg, of the Russian American Company's Ship Prince Menchikoff, to the Commander of the Colony of Sitka, October 17, 1852"
  • 5. Report from St. Helena--Cruelty of the Japanese toward American Sailors
  • 6. Path to Profligate Living of Samurai New to Edo 1855
  • 7. First Contact (1853)
  • 8. Letter from Commodore Matthew C. Perry [Sent in Connection with the Delivery of a White Flag] to Unknown Japanese Authorities, July 14, 1853
  • 9. Letter from Millard Fillmore, President of the United States of America, to His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of Japan (Written in 1852, Delivered by Commodore Perry in 1853)
  • 10. Letter from Commodore Matthew C. Perry to the Emperor of Japan (1853)
  • 11. Treaty of Kanagawa, March 31, 1854
  • 12. Japanese Map of the World (1850s)
  • 13. Commodore Perry's Fleet as Depicted in an 1853 Woodblock Print
  • 14. U.S.-Produced Lithograph of the Meeting between Commodore Perry and the Japanese in 1853
  • 15. Japanese Woodblock Print of Commodore Perry at Sixty Years Old (1854)
  • 16. On Coastal Defense (1853)
  • 17. Memorial on Foreign Intercourse Presented to the Shogunate by II Kamon no Kami (II Naosuke) in 1853
  • 18. One Letter to the Shogunate from the Major Daintyd in Response to U.S. Demands (1853)
  • 19. "Proposal for Reforming Japan, 1862" by YokoiShonan
  • 20. United States Seeks Special Access to Some of Japan's Harbors (1855)
  • 21. Journal Entry of Townsend Harris, First U.S. Envoy to Japan, Tuesday August 27, 1856
  • 22. Convention between Great Britain and Japan (1854)
  • 23. Treaty between Russia and Japan (1855)
  • 24. Murder in Yokohama (1859)
  • 25. Manifesto Announcing the Shogun's Abdication, November 8, 1867
  • 26. Charter Oath of April 6, 1868
  • 27. Abolition of Feudalism (1869)
  • 28. Conscription Regulations (1873)
  • 29. Letter from the Emperor of Japan to President Ulysses S. Grant on the Occasion of the Iwakura Embassy's Visit to the United States (1872).

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