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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464995803321

Autore

Burke-Gaffney Brian

Titolo

Nagasaki [[electronic resource] ] : the British experience, 1854-1945 / / Brian Burke-Gaffney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-282-48616-0

9786612486166

90-04-21287-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2010

Disciplina

952.244

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Nagasaki-shi (Japan) History

Nagasaki-shi (Japan) Foreign relations Great Britain

Nagasaki-shi (Japan) History Bombardment, 1945

Great Britain Foreign relations Japan Nagasaki-shi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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’.