Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: Japan Library
Biographical Portraits
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: Japan Library
ISBN: 978-1-873410-62-2
Verlag: Curzon Press Ltd
This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter of Japanese culture, Rev. Dr. John Batchelor whose work with the Ainu people of northern Japan is legendary and, more recently, Shigeru Yoshida, Japan's first post-war prime minister and Christmas Humphreys, founder of the Buddhist Society.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 Sir Rutherford Alcock, 1809–1897, Hugh CortazziSir; Chapter 2 Inoue Masaru – ‘Father’ of the Japanese Railways, Yumiyo Yamamoto; Chapter 3 Laurence Oliphant and Japan, 1858–88, Carmen Blacker; Chapter 4 Edmund Morel, a British Engineer in Japan, Yoshihiko Morita; Chapter 5 Alexander Allan Shand, 1844-1930 – a Banker the Japanese Could Trust, Olive Checkland, Norio Tamaki; Chapter 6 Royal Visits to Japan in the Meiji Period, 1868-1912, Hugh CortazziSir; Chapter 7 Britain’s Japan Consular Service, 1859-1941, J.E. Hoare; Chapter 8 John Harrington Gubbins, 1852-1929, Ian Nish; Chapter 9 Hannah Riddell, 1855-1932, Julia Boyd; Chapter 10 Lafcadio Hearn, 1850-1904, Paul Murray; Chapter 11 The Mutsu Family, Ian Mutsu; Chapter 12 J.W. Robertson-Scott and his Japanese Friends, Mari Nakami; Chapter 13 Lionel Berners Cholmondeley: A Chaplain in Tokyo, 1887-1921, Hamish Ion; Chapter 14 Richard Ponsonby-Fane: A Modern Scholarly William Adams, Dorothy Britton; Chapter 15 Crown Prince Hirohito in Britain, May 1921, Ian Nish; Chapter 16 John Batchelor, Missionary and Friend of the Ainu, Hugh CortazziSir; Chapter 17 Yoshida Shigeru and Mme Yoshida at the London Embassy, Ian Nish; Chapter 18 Shigemitsu Mamoru and Anglo-Japanese Relations, Antony Best; Chapter 19 Japanese Businessmen in the UK, Sadao Oba; Chapter 20 Christmas Humphreys and Japan, Carmen Blacker; Chapter 21 Sir Vere Redman, 1901-1975, Hugh CortazziSir; Chapter 22 The Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty of 1962: A British Perspective, Robin Gray; Chapter 23 Memories of the Anglo Japanese Commercial Treaty: A Japanese Perspective, Sosuke Hanaoka, Ian Nish; Chapter 24 The Impact in Britain of Japan’s Post-war Novelists, Sydney Giffard;
