The American merchant experience in nineteenth-century Japan

The American merchant experience in nineteenth-century Japan /

American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first...

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Main Author: Murphy, Kevin C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Subjects:
Americans > Japan > History > 19th century.
Corporations, American > Japan > History > 19th century.
Merchants > Japan.
Merchants > United States.
Japan > Commerce > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Commerce > Japan > History > 19th century.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. From frenzy to insecurity : the contours of trade
  • 2. Life on the edge : treaty port society
  • 3. Formal power, actual dependence : consuls as intermediaries
  • 4. Business by proxy : Bantos and compradores
  • 5. The price of isolation : external pressures.

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