Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer

Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853

George Feifer

416 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of in...

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