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The Coming of the Barbarians - A Story of Western Settlement in Japan, 1853-1870 (Paperback, Main)
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The Coming of the Barbarians - A Story of Western Settlement in Japan, 1853-1870 (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R509
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Nineteenth-century Japan was pristine, inviolate and feudal, ruled
by the legendary Shogun and the sacred puppet-Emperor, the Mikado.
Foreigners were despised and feared as 'hairy barbarians'; for more
than two hundred years Dutch merchants had been the only settlers,
interned on the tiny island of Decima. The advent of a US naval
force in 1853 heralded a new era of drama and upheaval as foreign
consuls, merchants and travellers established a risky presence on
Japan's shores, opening up a new frontier for both East and West.
Pat Barr's sparkling and vivid narrative spans these twenty years
and captures the excitement and wonder, beauty and adventure of
Japan at its moment of entry into the modern world. Pat Barr
continues the story of Japan in an age of transition in The Deer
Cry Pavilion, also reissued by Faber Finds.
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