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The Iwakura mission in America and Europe: a new assessment

Contributor(s): Series: Meiji Japan series, 6Publication details: 1998 Routledge OxonDescription: xii, 228 pISBN:
  • 9780415471794
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.52 I9
Summary: Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy.
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Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 14-A / Slot 519 (0 Floor, West Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 327.52 I9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 178438

Includes index.

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy.

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