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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Morton Robert <1965->"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A life of Sir Harry Parkes : British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885 / / Robert Morton"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Folkestone : , : Renaissance Books, , 2021"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-912961-17-2"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"327.41/0092"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Diplomats - Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Foreign relations Japan"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Japan Foreign relations Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Foreign relations China"]
[{"$nulls":4},"China Foreign relations Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Foreign relations Korea"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Korea Foreign relations Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Foreign relations 1837-1901"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of Illustrations -- 1 ‘Watch Therefore For Ye Knows Not’ -- 2 ‘A Sharp Intelligent Lad’ -- 3 ‘Not Sufficient to Satisfy Me’ -- 4 ‘Here I am Now Perfectly Alone’ -- 5 ‘A Continuous Settled Life Has No Charms for Me’ -- 6 ‘I Saw a Good Deal’ -- 7 ‘I Distinctly Declined to Accede’ -- 8 ‘Hasty Love-making’ -- 9 ‘It Is the Cause of the West against the East’ -- 10 ‘Never Sparing Himself in Any Way’ -- 11 ‘The Executioner Stood by with Uplifted Sword’ -- 12 ‘I Do Not at All Like Being in a Great Man’s Train’ -- 13 Sir Harry Parkes -- 14 ‘The Drudgery of the Service’ -- 15 ‘The Appointment is Particularly Gratifying to Me’ -- 16 ‘The Most Superior Japanese’ -- 17 The Meiji Restoration -- 18 ‘We of Course Hope for Improvement’ -- 19 ‘This is Becoming Civilised with a Vengeance’ -- 20 ‘I Arrived Too Late’ -- 21 ‘I Am Deeply Sensible of the Services You have Rendered’ -- 22 ‘The Last Semi-civilised State’ -- 23 ‘I Can Find No Rest’ -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- NOTES -- Index -- The Author"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. In his day, he was seen as "]
[{"$nulls":4},"both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country's humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise."]