Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

Chronicling Westerners in Nineteenth-Century East Asia

Lives, Linkages, and Imperial Connections

Hellyer, Associate Professor Robert; Fletcher, Professor Robert S.G.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

05/2022

256

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Inglês

9781350238909

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction. William Alt and Charles Richardson: family, fortune and fortuity in nineteenth-century East Asia, Robert Fletcher (University of Missouri, USA) and Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest University, USA)
1. Disturbed Reciprocity: Rutherford Alcock's diplomacy and merchant communities in China and Japan, Sano Mayuko (Kyoto University, Japan)
2. George S. Morrison and Japan's First British Consulate at Nagasaki Brian Burke-Gaffney (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan)
3. Making Safe the Settlement: the British troops at Yokohama and their influence on foreign Japanese society, Nakatake (Hori) Kanami (Yokohama Archives of History, Japan)
4. Between Trade and Diplomacy: The Commercial Activities of the Swiss Silk Merchants Siber & Brennwald in late Edo and early Meiji Japan, Mariko Fukuoka (National Museum of Japanese History, Japan) and Alexis Schwarzenbach (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland)
5. Afterlife of the Wealthy: the burial of merchant communities in nineteenth-century colonial Hong Kong, Bobby Tam (University of Warwick, UK)
7. Charlotte Jane: National Symbol and Global Reality, Annette Bainbridge (Independent Scholar, New Zealand)
8. Dreams of Expanding the British Empire: The Life of George Windsor Earl, Ranald Noel-Paton (Independent Scholar, UK)
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history; Asia; East Asia; modern history; imperial history; empire; colonialism; nineteenth century; maritime world; British history; Japan; China; Britain; social history; cultural history; daily life; chronicles; diaries; commerce; communications; migration; people; maritime history