Matthew Calbraith Perry
Subtitle: antebellum sailor and diplomat
By: John H. Schroeder.
Series: Library of naval biography
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.; United States. Navy -- Biography.; Sailors -- United States -- Biography.; Diplomats -- United States -- Biography.; United States -- History, Naval -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This interpretive biography of Matthew Calbraith Perry - the first to appear in well over thirty years - offers a balanced assessment of the commodore's long and varied career as one of the U.S. Navy's preeminent officers of the antebellum era.

Best remembered for leading a naval and diplomatic expedition to Japan in 1853, Perry succeeded where others before him had failed with the signing of a treaty that established formal diplomatic relations between the United States and Japan and ended Japan's isolation from the West. To this day Perry remains a respected figure in Japan as well as in the United Slates."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 A Rhode Island Naval Heritage; title: 2 Lieutenant in West African and Caribbean Waters; title: 3 First Lieutenant and Commander in the Mediterranean; title: 4 Captain and Naval Reformer; title: 5 Commodore of the African Squadron; title: 6 Commodore of the Gulf Squadron; title: 7 Planning the Naval Expedition to Japan; title: 8 East Asia and Japan; title: 9 A Treaty with Japan, Signed and Tested; title: 10 Home at Last.