Opening A Window to The West
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Pub Date Nov 20 2013 | Archive Date Dec 19 2013
Description
After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened its borders to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to their own cultural patterns. This provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. Kōbe was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements.
The first book-length study of Kōbe’s Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of Kōbe during these critical decades of growth and development.
PETER ENNALS is a professor emeritus of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.Advance Praise
“With Opening a Window to the West, Peter Ennals deploys his expertise in decoding townscapes and architecture to uncover the evidence of ‘back-home,’ hybrid, and ‘Eurasian colonial’ contributions to the distinctive townscape and political-social infrastructure of Kōbe’s Foreign Concession. His imaginative insight into the process of ‘place-making’ in time and space in the context of Kōbe’s Foreign Concession is complemented by a masterly analysis of the socio-economic, political, and geopolitical context of this phase of the global economy.”
Brian Osborne, Professor Emeritus of Geography, Queen’s University
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781442614161 |
| PRICE | CA$32.95 (CAD) |
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