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  • Ian Nish - Collected Writings

    by Ian Nish ...
    Series series Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan
    Developed in close collaboration with Ian Nish, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Anglo-Japanese Alliance. ... Read more

    $420.00 USD

  • The History of Manchuria, 1840-1948

    A Sino-Russo-Japanese Triangle

    by Ian Nish ...
    Series series Politics, Security and Society in Asia Pacific
    In A History of Manchuria, Ian Nish describes the turbulent times which the three Northeastern Provinces of China experienced in the last two centuries. The site of three serious wars in 1894, 1904 and 1919, the territory rarely enjoyed peace though its economy progressed because of the building of arterial railways. From 1932 it came under the rule of the Japanese-inspired government of Manchukuo ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Collected Writings of Ian Nish

    Part 2: Japanese Political History - Japan and East Asia

    by Ian Nish ...
    Series Book 2 - Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan
    This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan brings together the work of Ian Nish on international relations affecting Japan, Russia, China and Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. ... Read more

    $450.00 USD

  • Japanese Foreign Policy 1869-1942

    Kasumigaseki to Miyakezaka

    by Ian Nish ...
    First published in 2001. This is Volume XI of the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers eleven part series and focuses on the policies of the Japanese, from 1869 to 1942. It includes sections on the Iwakura period, the Mutsu period, Aoki, Komura, Kato, Ishi, Shidehara, Tanaka, Uchida, Hirota, Konoe and ending with the Matsuoka period in 1941. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Britain and Japan Vol II

    Biographical Portraits

    by Ian Nish ...
    Series series Japan Library
    This second collection under the 'Biographical Portraits' title, incorporates a further 20 studies of key personalities, including Edmund Morel, pioneer railway builder in Meiji Japan, Alexander Shand, an important figure in the development of Japanese banking, Lafcadio Hearn, the great interpreter of Japanese culture, Rev. Dr. John Batchelor whose work with the Ainu people of northern Japan is ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Russo-Japanese War

    by Ian Nish ...
    Series series Origins Of Modern Wars
    The Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5 has been seen as the turning point of the development of the modern world. Written by a specialist in Japanese diplomacy, this book has been described by the Times Higher Education Supplement as 'diplomatic history at its very best'. ... Read more

    $165.00 USD

  • Richard Storry - Collected Writings

    by Richard Storry ...
    Series series Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan
    This volume of the Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars on Japan series, published under the Japan Library imprint, collects the work of Richard Storry on contempory issues and the history of Japan. ... Read more

    $480.00 USD

  • The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe

    A New Assessment

    by Ian Nish ...
    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 ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

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    Japan, China and the West: 1894-1941

    by Nick Shepley ...
    Series Book 5 - Explaining History
    In the second half of the 19th Century, Japan awoke from centuries of isolation to be a surprising and warlike challenge to European power in Asia. This ebook charts the rise of Japan's power and her dominion over China. It also explores how Japan came to challenge European nations convinced of their own invincibility in the east, culminating in the attack on the USA at Pearl Harbour. ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Japan

    From Stone Age to Superpower

    by K. Henshall ...
    In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japan's progress through its entire history to its current status as an economic, technological, and cultural superpower. A key factor is a pragmatic determination to succeed. Little-known facts are also brought to light, and the latest findings used. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Betrayed Ally

    China in the Great War

    by Frances Wood ...
    The Great War helped China emerge from humiliation and obscurity and take its first tentative steps as a full member of the global community.In 1912 the Qing Dynasty had ended. President Yuan Shikai, who seized power in 1914, offered the British 50,000 troops to recover the German colony in Shandong but this was refused. In 1916 China sent a vast army of labourers to Europe. In 1917 she declared ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japan 1941

    Countdown to Infamy

    by Eri Hotta ...
    A groundbreaking history that considers the attack on Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective and is certain to revolutionize how we think of the war in the Pacific.When Japan launched hostilities against the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a war they were almost certain to lose. Drawing on material little known to Western ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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