Richard Henry Brunton

Building Japan 1868-1876 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134239771
• Artikelnr.: 39906092

Autorenporträt

Richard Henry Brunton

Inhaltsangabe

One: My Appointment to Japan
Two: The First Telegraph in Japan
Three: Laying out a New Settlement
Four: Water and Light
Five: Building Iron Bridges
Six: Osaka: An Interned City
Seven: Taming the Rivers
Eight: The Gold Mines of Sado 1
Nine: The Pioneer Railway in the Far East
Ten: Maps, 1 Surveys and Engineering Education
Eleven: The New Coinage
Twelve: The Great Fire in Tokio
Thirteen: The Craze for Steamers
Fourteen: Location of the Lighthouses
Fifteen: In the Historic Port of Nagasaki 1
Sixteen: Buying a Lighthouse Tender
Seventeen: My Visit to Satsuma
Eighteen: The American Warship Oneida
Nineteen: The Purchase of the Thabor
Twenty: The Jealous Japanese
Twenty-One: The Dockyard at Yokosuka
Twenty-Two: The Expedition to Formosa
Twenty-Three: Vicissitudes
Twenty-Four: Necessity, the Mother of Invention
Twenty-Five: Building Ships
Twenty-Six: Audience of the Emperor
Twenty-Seven: The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers
Twenty-Eight: Home Again with the Japanese in England
Twenty-Nine: Japanese Petroleum
Thirty: Women's Education in Japan
Thirty-One: The Japanese in Bad Temper
Thirty-Two: The Yokohama Harbour Scheme
Thirty-Three: Maintaining Discipline
Thirty-Four: Keeping up the Standard
Thirty-Five: The Riu Kiu Islands
Thirty-Six: Personal Judgements