| The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History Contributor(s): LaFeber, Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393318370 ISBN-13: 9780393318371 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General - History | Modern - General - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 327.730 |
| LCCN: 98034387 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 4.42" W x 9.29" (1.54 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occasionally violent clashes between Americans and Japanese began. Walter LaFeber has written the first book to tell the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogenous, closely knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an international marketplace. Using both American and Japanese sources, LaFeber provides the history behind the vicissitudes of rearming Japan, the present-day tensions in U.S.-Japan trade talks, Japan's continuing importance in financing America's huge deficit, and both nations' drive to develop China--a shadow that has darkened American-Japanese relations from the beginning. |
Contributor Bio(s): LaFeber, Walter: - Walter LaFeber is professor of history at Cornell University and the author of The Clash and Inevitable Revolutions. |