Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations

by Michael R. Auslin

Decades before Americans cheered on Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball fans swooned over Babe Ruth. And a century prior to the craze for anime and manga, American art collectors hoarded Japanese woodblock prints. Few relationships can match the depth, or importance, of the cultural ties between America and Japan over the past two hundred years. In Pacific Cosmopolitans, Michael Auslin tells this absorbing history in full for the first time. From the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674045971
• ISBN13: 9780674045972
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.4"