Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy

by Michael R. Auslin

Book Overview

Japan's modern international history began in 1858 with the signing of the "unequal" commercial treaty with the United States. Over the next fifteen years, Japanese diplomacy was reshaped to respond to the Western imperialist challenge. Negotiating with Imperialism is the first book to explain the emergence of modern Japan through this early period of treaty relations.

Michael Auslin dispels the myth that the Tokugawa bakufu...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022270
• ISBN13: 9780674022270
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"