num_pages: 420
description: In this book Dr Nish deals with one of the most important aspects of far eastern politics in the critical period between 1894 and 1907. His object is to demonstrate how Britain and Japan at first separately and later jointly, reacted to Russian encroachments in China and east Asia; he is concerned also with the policies of the other European powers and of the United States, to whose hostility towards the Anglo-Japanese alliance after 1905 Britain showed herself increasingly sensitive.Dr Nish has based his account in large part on hitherto unpublished and inaccessible materials. The availability of much new archival material, both public and private, and the author's first-hand knowledge of the Japanese sources (the most important of which are translated in an appendix) have enabled him to attempt, among other things, an informed assessment of the domestic influences which led the British and Japanese governments to take the step of entering into unprecedented alliance. Much is seen to depend on the naval needs of both partners and, in the case of Great Britain, on the difficulty of providing adequately for the defence of India at the same time as coping with critical developments nearer home.
language: English
title: Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907
titlecomplete: Anglo-Japanese Alliance: The Diplomacy of Two Island Empires 1894-1907
characters: Arthur Balfour, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Komura Jutarō, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Katsura Tarō, Hayashi Tadasu, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, Yamagata Aritomo, Itō Hirobumi, Joseph Chamberlain
ratings_count: 4
publisher: UNKNO