Nagasaki : the British experience, 1854-1945 / Brian Burke-Gaffney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke-Gaffney, Brian.

Series:

Brill eBook titles 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan).

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Japan--Nagasaki-shi.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent, U.K. : Global Oriental, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Long overdue, this important first full length account in English of the history of Japan’s first foreign settlement, which for centuries was the country’s only ‘front door’to the outside world, will be widely welcomed. Following the opening of Japan’s ports in 1859, Nagasaki rapidly became one of Japan’s leading industrial centres, which included shipbuilding, but, other than the history surrounding the atomic bombing of August 1945, in the post-war period, it has been largely overshadowed by interest in the Meiji settlements of Kobe and Yokohama. Fully illustrated, the value of the work is reinforced by additional key data to be found in the appendices, including the 1866 and 1898 Directories of Foreign Residents, the 1872 List of Property being Rented, a List of Existing Cultural Assets of the Former Nagasaki Foreign Settlement and a chronology of ‘Madame Butterfly and Nagasaki’.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / B. Burke-Gaffney

1. Historical Background / B. Burke-Gaffney

2. The Turbulent First Decade / B. Burke-Gaffney

3. Obstacles To Coexistence / B. Burke-Gaffney

4. Life, Work And Recreation / B. Burke-Gaffney

5. Mitsubishi Connections / B. Burke-Gaffney

6. Japanese Wives In Fiction And Real Life / B. Burke-Gaffney

7. Golden Years / B. Burke-Gaffney

8. Downhill To The Second World War / B. Burke-Gaffney

9. And In The End / B. Burke-Gaffney

10. Gone But Not Forgotten / B. Burke-Gaffney

Appendix. British Consuls And Acting Consuls In Nagasaki, 1859–1941 / B. Burke-Gaffney

Notes / B. Burke-Gaffney

Bibliography / B. Burke-Gaffney

Index / B. Burke-Gaffney

Plates / B. Burke-Gaffney.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48616-0

9786612486166

90-04-21287-6

OCLC:

753480448

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9781906876135.i-320 DOI