Negotiating with Imperialism : : The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy / / Michael R. Auslin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Auslin, Michael R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond to the Western imperialist challenge. Negotiating with Imperialism is the first book t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Introduction
• 1. The Style and Substance of Treaty-Making
• 2. Negotiating Space: The Meaning of Yokohama
• 3. Negotiating Time: The Postponement Strategy
• 4. The Limits of Negotiation: Expulsion and Gunboats
• 5. New Horizons: Tariffs and Translations
• 6. Rethinking Negotiation: Moving toward Revision
• 7. Negotiating the Future: The Iwakura Mission in America and Britain
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Treaties of Friendship and Commerce Signed by the Tokugawa Bakufu and the Meiji Government
• Appendix 2: Key Japanese and Western Diplomats
• Appendix 3: Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan, July 29, 1858
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index