HAWKS, FRANCIS L. (COMPILED BY); WALLACH, SIDNEY (ABRIDGE AND EDITED BY) - Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy Compiled at His Request and Under His Supersivion

Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London. 1954, 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. Book, English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16.5 x 24 cm.; 0.7 Kg; 305 pages with a few illustrations. Used with signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket thats that show wear signs throughout and edge wear. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; A century ago Commodore Perry of the United States Navy opened Japan to the influence of the Western world when he stationed his squadron or ironclads and sailing vessels at the entrance to Tokyo Bay and insisted in disturbing a seclusion which the Japanese emperors had maintained since the seventeenth century. The resulting treaty in 1854 paved the way for Japan's swift rise to the status of the world power. In his 1952 Reich Lectures The World and the West Professor A.J. Toynbee had discussed as a historian the reasons why the Eastern world failed to resist this Western penetration in the nineteenth century and had touched on some of the tremendous consequences. The present narrative describes a most significant episode of this historical process, for it consists of Commodore Perry's own chronicle of the expedition, compiled at his request and under his supervision, which is here published for the first time in country and in a modern edition. It is a most intriguing and instructive chronicle, for the Commodore was a most tenacious diplomat, who took the trouble to ready forty books on Japan before he sailed on his mission. bearing the credentials of his President. The effect of this massive and picturesque personality upon and outwardly hostile but inwardly curious oriental hierarchy, with both sides unwilling to contemplate the use of force, provides an interesting commentary upon the methods and outlook of two very different forms of society, which, for good or ill, are now closely associated in the modern world. Good/Dust Jacket Included.

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