Defining Engagement by Robert I Hellyer

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Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Defining Engagement by Robert I Hellyer

Presenting fresh insights on the internal dynamics and global contexts that shaped foreign relations in early modern Japan, Robert I. Hellyer challenges the still largely accepted wisdom that the Tokugawa shogunate, guided by an ideology of seclusion, stifled intercourse with the outside world, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Robert I. Hellyer is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University.
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ISBN 13 9780674035775
ISBN 10 0674035771
Title Defining Engagement
Author Robert I Hellyer
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Harvard University, Asia Center
Year published 2010-03-01
Number of pages 300
Prizes Nominated for John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History 2010
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