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Defining engagement : Japan and global contexts, 1640-1868
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ISBN: 9780674035775 9781684174997 Year: 2009 Volume: 326 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard University Asia Center

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Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Examining diplomacy, coastal defense, and foreign trade, this study demonstrates that while the shogunate created the broader framework, foreign relations were actually implemented through cooperative but sometimes competitive relationships with the Satsuma and Tsushima domains ... Successive Tokugawa leaders also proactively revised foreign trade, especially with China ... In the nineteenth century, the system of foreign relations continued to evolve. The two domains of Satsuma and Tsushima subsequently played key roles in Japan's transition from using early modern East Asian practices of foreign relations to the national adoptation of international relations. -- Book Jacket.


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The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830.
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ISBN: 0804706697 Year: 1969 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.) Stanford university press

The private correspondence of Isaac Titsingh.
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ISBN: 9025610250 9050630456 9025610242 905063057X 9789050630450 9789025610241 9789025610258 Year: 1990 Volume: 5-6 Publisher: Amsterdam Gieben

The conquest of Ainu lands : ecology and culture in Japanese expansion, 1590 - 1800.
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ISBN: 9780520248342 0520248341 0520227360 9780520227361 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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This model monograph is the first scholarly study to put the Ainu--the native people living in Ezo, the northernmost island of the Japanese archipelago--at the center of an exploration of Japanese expansion during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the height of the Tokugawa shogunal era. Inspired by "new Western" historians of the United States, Walker positions Ezo not as Japan's northern "frontier" but as a borderland or middle ground. By framing his study between the cultural and ecological worlds of the Ainu before and after two centuries of sustained contact with the Japanese, the author demonstrates with great clarity just how far the Ainu were incorporated into the Japanese political economy and just how much their ceremonial and material life--not to mention disease ecology, medical culture, and their physical environment--had been infiltrated by Japanese cultural artifacts, practices, and epidemiology by the early nineteenth century. Walker takes a fresh and original approach. Rather than presenting a mere juxtaposition of oppression and resistance, he offers a subtle analysis of how material and ecological changes induced by trade with Japan set in motion a reorientation of the whole northern culture and landscape. Using new and little-known material from archives as well as Ainu oral traditions and archaeology, Walker poses an exciting new set of questions and issues that have yet to be approached in so innovative and thorough a fashion.

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J4207 --- J3363 --- J3480 --- J7510 --- J4140.60 --- J4000.60 --- Ainu --- -Human ecology --- -Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecology --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Ainos --- Ethnology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- native ethnicity and race --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- seclusion, sakoku (1639-1854), 18th century general --- Japan: Geography and local history -- Hokkaidō prefecture (Ezo) --- Japan: Natural sciences and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- History --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Hokkaido (Japan) --- Japan --- History. --- -Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) --- Hokkaido (Japon) --- Ainu. --- Ainu-- History. --- Hokkaido (Japan) - History. --- Human ecology - Japan - Hokkaido. --- Aïnou (Peuple d'Asie) --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japon --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Nipponkoku --- Nippon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nihon-koku --- State of Japan --- Япония --- Japani --- اليابان --- al-Yābān --- يابان --- Yābān --- Japonsko --- Giappone --- Japonia --- Japonya --- -Ainu --- Human ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- Histoire --- J4150.60 --- -J4207 --- Japan: Science and technology -- biology -- ecology (general) --- -Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- native ethnicity and race --- -Ainu - History --- Human ecology - Japan - Hokkaido --- Hokkaido (Japan) - History --- Japan - History - Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 --- Ainu - History --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс --- -History --- History -

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