The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan

The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan
ISBN-10
0375754555
ISBN-13
9780375754555
Series
The Great Wave
Category
History
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Author
Christopher E. G. Benfey

Description

An incisive study of cultural identity and the implications--good and bad--of cultural cross-pollination describes the historical and cultural reciprocity that existed in the era following the Civil War between the United States and Japan, a country looking to reinvent itself as a cosmopolitan modern state. Reprint. 14,000 first printing.

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