Breaking open Japan : Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 / George Feifer.
Breaking open Japan : Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 / George Feifer.
Breaking open Japan : Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 / George Feifer.
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New York : Smithonsian Books/Collins, c2006.
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N952.025/22
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English
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xx, 389 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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New York : Smithonsian Books/Collins, c2006.
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New York (State)
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c2006.
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"On July 8, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron anchored at Uraga, twenty-seven miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. The ships had come to pry open Japan after her two-and-a-half centuries of isolation and after years of intense planning by Commodore Matthew Perry, the squadron commander. Unabashedly imperialist...
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Breaking open Japan : Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 / George Feifer.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [365]-373.
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c2006.
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N952.025/22
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74VKJO8KZxkO
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0060884320 (hbk.)
9780060884321 (hbk.)
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952.025
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991022144939702626
