The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment

by Ian Nish and Ian Hill Nish; Sadao Asada

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415471796
• ISBN13: 9780415471794
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"