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Opening a Window to the West : The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 by Peter Ennals (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN-101442614161
ISBN-139781442614161
eBay Product ID (ePID)166691778
Product Key Features
Number of Pages277 Pages
Publication NameOpening a Window to the West : the Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEarth Sciences / Geography, Asia / Japan, Modern / General, Commercial Policy
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Ennals
Subject AreaScience, Business & Economics, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.', "In this informative and engaging book, Peter Ennals provides the very first study of Kobe's Foreign Concession during the last decades of the nineteenth century. Ennals has carried out careful research into the daily life and characters who inhabited the foreign settlement using archival material from a diverse array sources. He also illuminates the broader economic and social conditions that shaped the success and challenges of this distinctive period in the city's history."--David Edgington, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, 'Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.' --Herald Feuss, Pacific Affairs; June 2015
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal338.0952/187409034
Table Of ContentIllustrations Tables Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan 2. The Creation of Kobe'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 Kobe: 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 Kobe 8. Measuring Success in the Concession Endnotes Glossary Explanatory Notes Bibliography Archival Sources Newspapers Published Sources Index
SynopsisAfter 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 their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. Kobe was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements. The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of Kobe during these critical decades of growth and development., 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 their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. Kobe was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements. The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the Westsituates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of Kobe during these critical decades of growth and development., 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 their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. K�be was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements. The first book-length study of K�be's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates K�be within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of K�be during these critical decades of growth and development., The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.
LC Classification NumberHF3830.K6E56 2014
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