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Title Opening a window to the West : the foreign concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 / Peter Ennals.

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Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014], ©2014.


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Location	Call No.	Status
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Physical description	1 online resource (xxiii, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series	Japan and global society
	Japan and global society.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index.
Contents	Setting the stage : the role of ports in the encounter between East and West in Japan -- The creation of Kōbe's foreign concession -- Establishing municipal government and services in the concession -- Forging an economy : the basis for mercantile trade -- Finding a mercantile staple for Kōbe : the tea and silk trades -- The morphology of the settlement and the development of a pleasing townscape -- Life at the end of the world : forming an expatriate society in Kōbe -- Measuring success in the concession.
Summary	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.
Subject	Concessions -- Japan -- Kōbe-shi -- History -- 19th century.
	Land use -- Japan -- Kōbe-shi -- History -- 19th century.
	Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
	Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Historical geography.
	Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
	Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	History
ISBN	9781442664210 (electronic bk.)
	1442664215 (electronic bk.)
	1442614161
	9781442614161
	1442646020
	9781442646025