Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; ERRATA; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; JAPANESE NAMES, TITLES AND DATES; INTRODUCTION: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; CHAPTER I COMPANY AND CROWN; "" II THE OPIUM WAR IN ANGLO-JAPANESE RELATIONS; "" III SECRET PLANS; "" IV THE PERRY EXPEDITION : 1852-54; "" V THE STIRLING CONVENTION : 1854-55; "" VI SIR JOHN BOWRING AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE : 1854-57; "" VII THE ELGIN MISSION : 1857-58; RETROSPECT AND CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX A THE ANGLO-JAPANESE CONVENTION OF 14 OCTOBER 1854
"" B draft exposition handed by rear admiral sir james stirling to the nagasaki bugyō, 11 october 1855bibliography; index
Summary
Reissue in paperback (with new Introduction) of the 1951 classic analysis of the crucial years leading up to the Meiji restoration in which Britain provided Japan with its wealth and power model
