Nagasaki [electronic resource] : the British experience, 1854-1945 / Brian Burke-Gaffney.
2009
DS897.N2957 B87 2009eb
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Nagasaki [electronic resource] : the British experience, 1854-1945 / Brian Burke-Gaffney.
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1906876134
9781906876135
9781906876289
1906876282
9789004212879 (electronic bk.)
9004212876 (electronic bk.)
9781906876135
9781906876289
1906876282
9789004212879 (electronic bk.)
9004212876 (electronic bk.)
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Kent, [England] : Global Oriental, c2009.
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English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 288 p., 32 p. of plates) : ill. (chiefly col.), map.
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9786612486166
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DS897.N2957 B87 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
952.244
Summary
"This volume provides the first full-length account in English of British-Japanese interchange in Nagasaki, Japan's closest port to the Asian continent, the only 'open window' to the world during the long period of national seclusion (1641-1859), and victim of an atomic bombing in the summer of 1945."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.271-280) and index.
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Table of Contents
Historical background
The turbulent first decade
Obstacles to coexistence
Life, work and recreation
Mitsubishi connections
Japanese wives in fiction and real life
Golden years
Downhill to the Second World War
And in the end
Gone but not forgotten.
The turbulent first decade
Obstacles to coexistence
Life, work and recreation
Mitsubishi connections
Japanese wives in fiction and real life
Golden years
Downhill to the Second World War
And in the end
Gone but not forgotten.