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George Feifer
416 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060884321
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Smithsonian
Publication date: Not specified
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On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of in...
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George Feifer
416 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780060884321
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Smithsonian
Publication date: Not specified
Description
On July 14, 1853, the four warships of America's East Asia Squadron made for Kurihama, 30 miles south of the Japanese capital, then called Edo. It had come to pry open Japan after her two and a half centuries of isolation and nearly a decade of in...