Subtitle: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899
Author: Phipps, Catherine L.
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9780674417168
Pages: 308
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publisher's city: Cambridge
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Empires on the Waterfront
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Empires on the Waterfront offers a new spatial framework for understanding Japan’s extended transition into the modern world of nation-states. This study examines a largely unacknowledged system of “special trading ports” that operated under full Japanese jurisdiction in the shadow of the better-known treaty ports. By allowing Japan to circumvent conditions imposed on treaty ports, the special trading ports were key to achieving autonomy and regional power.