Opening a Window to the West : : The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 / / Peter Ennals.
After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to thei...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 figures, 10 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan
- 2. The Creation of Kōbe's Foreign Concession
- 3. Establishing Municipal Government and Services in the Concession
- 4. Forging an Economy: The Basis for Mercantile Trade
- 5. Finding a Mercantile Staple for Kōbe: The Tea and Silk Trades
- 6. The Morphology of the Settlement and the Development of a Pleasing Townscape
- 7. Life at the End of the World: Forming an Expatriate Society in Kōbe
- 8. Measuring Success in the Concession
- Glossary
- Explanatory Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index