Outposts of Civilization : : Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations / / Joseph M. Henning.
Civilization and progress, Gilded Age Americans believed, were inseparable from Anglo-Saxon heritage and Christianity. In rising to become the first Asian and non-Christian world power, Meiji Japan (1868-1912) challenged this deeply-held conviction, and in so doing threatened racial and cultural hie...
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