Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868

by Robert I. Hellyer

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Examining diplomacy, coastal defense, and foreign trade, this study demonstrates that while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035771
• ISBN13: 9780674035775
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"