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9780742526204

A Yankee in Meiji Japan The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742526204

  • ISBN10:

    0742526208

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-04-28
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This unique book portrays the evolution of Meiji Japan through the life of crusading journalist Edward H. House (1836-1901). In chapters that alternate between history and biography, James Huffman, shows how one man bridged continents--shaping American at

Author Biography

James L. Huffman is H. Orth Hirt Professor of History at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Credits xv
Introduction 1(4)
1 Incident in Yokohama Harbor 5(10)
2 The Prodigy: 1836-1870 15(32)
3 Japan to 1870: Dizzying Change 47(12)
4 The Newcomer: 1870-1873 59(16)
5 Japan, 1870-1875: Consolidating Power 75(10)
6 Writing for Japan: 1873-1876 85(22)
7 Japan, 1876-1881: Growing Pains 107(10)
8 The Tokio Times-"That Naughty Yankee Boy": 1877-1880 117(36)
9 Japan, 1881-1885: The Outsiders 153(12)
10 A Change in Course: 1880-1885 165(26)
11 Japan, 1885-1892: Imperial Constitutionalism 191(10)
12 Interesting Times: 1886-1892 201(28)
13 Japan, 1893-1901: Modernity-and All That Meant 229(10)
14 Evening Years: 1892-1901 239(22)
Epilogue 261(18)
Bibliography 279(18)
Index 297(12)
About the Author 309

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