Empires on the Waterfront
Subtitle: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858-1899
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780674417168
Subjects: Japan, commerce; Japan, foreign relations; Japan, history; Free ports and zones
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description