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Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868

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Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 - Hellyer, Robert I
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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.

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Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 2010, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674035775

Hardcover