Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899

by Peter Ennals

Book Overview

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. Kōbe was one of these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442614161
• ISBN13: 9781442614161
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher