Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887

by Stephen Royle

In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This book, the first full-length study of the incident, is based around contemporary material varying from printed dispatches and government reports to original archival manuscripts. This enables the book's scope to range from setting the Port Hamilton Affair into its context within the high geopolitics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848935811
• ISBN13: 9781848935815
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"