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After more than two centuries of self-seclusion, Japan finally opened itself to Western traders and influences in the 1850s. However, Westerners were restricted to a handful of Foreign Concessions set adjacent to selected Japanese cities, where they could fashion a working urban space suited to their own cultural patterns, and which provided the Japanese with a microscopic lens on Western ways of behaviour and commerce. Kobe was one of these treaty ports, and its Foreign Concession, along with that at Yokohama, became the most vibrant and successful of these settlements. The first book-length study of Kobe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kobe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century. Detailing the form and evolution of the settlement, its social and economic composition, and its specific mercantile trading features, this vivid micro-study illuminates the making of Kobe during these critical decades of growth and development.
Contents
Illustrations Tables Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements 1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan 2. The Creation of Kobe's Foreign Concession 3. Establishing Municipal Government and Services in the Concession 4. Forging an Economy - The Basis for Mercantile Trade 5. Finding a Mercantile Staple for Kobe: The Tea and Silk Trades 6. The Morphology of the Settlement and the Development of a Pleasing Townscape 7. Life at the End of the World: Forming an Expatriate Society in Kobe 8. Measuring Success in the Concession Endnotes Glossary Explanatory Notes Bibliography Archival Sources Newspapers Published Sources Index
