A Life of Sir Harry Parkes : : British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885 / / Robert Morton.
Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain’s relations with the Far East from the start of his working life at fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. Orphaned at the age of five, he went to China on his own as a child and worked his way to the top. God-fearing and fearless, he believed his mission was...
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Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- List of Illustrations
- 1 ‘Watch Therefore For Ye Knows Not’
- 2 ‘A Sharp Intelligent Lad’
- 3 ‘Not Sufficient to Satisfy Me’
- 4 ‘Here I am Now Perfectly Alone’
- 5 ‘A Continuous Settled Life Has No Charms for Me’
- 6 ‘I Saw a Good Deal’
- 7 ‘I Distinctly Declined to Accede’
- 8 ‘Hasty Love-making’
- 9 ‘It Is the Cause of the West against the East’
- 10 ‘Never Sparing Himself in Any Way’
- 11 ‘The Executioner Stood by with Uplifted Sword’
- 12 ‘I Do Not at All Like Being in a Great Man’s Train’
- 13 Sir Harry Parkes
- 14 ‘The Drudgery of the Service’
- 15 ‘The Appointment is Particularly Gratifying to Me’
- 16 ‘The Most Superior Japanese’
- 17 The Meiji Restoration
- 18 ‘We of Course Hope for Improvement’
- 19 ‘This is Becoming Civilised with a Vengeance’
- 20 ‘I Arrived Too Late’
- 21 ‘I Am Deeply Sensible of the Services You have Rendered’
- 22 ‘The Last Semi-civilised State’
- 23 ‘I Can Find No Rest’
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- NOTES
- Index
- The Author