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The year 2003 marks the 150th anniversary of United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry's first visit to Japan. This collection of largely contemporary volumes has been selected by Professor W. G. Beasley, doyen of Bakufu and Meiji Studies, to best reflect the issues, focus and mind-set informing the Mission and its raison d'être, the nature and character of the man who led it - Commodore Matthew... Read more
Volume I.Introduction by W. G. BeasleySelect Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy 1853-1868(The Perry Covention Documents 1-9) W. G Beasley (Ed.)London, OUP, 1955William E Griffis, Matthew Calbraith Perry Ch.XXIII-XXXVIVolume II. Aaron H. Palmer Origin of the Mission to Japan. Documents and facts illustrating the origin of the mission to Japan, authorized by the United States Government, May 10,1851Robert Tomes Americans in Japan - An abridgement of the government narrative of the United States expedition to Japan under Commodore PerryVolume III. J. W. Spalding The Japanese Expedition: Japan and Around the World - an account of three visits to the Japanese EmpireVolume IV. Henry E. Graff (ed.), Bluejackets with Perry in Japan. A day-by-day account kept by Master Mate John R.C.Lewis and Cabin Boy William B.AllenVolume V. John Glendy Sproston The Private Journal of John Glendy SprostonVolume VI.S. Wells Williams A Journal of the Perry Expedition to Japan, 1853-54Volume VII. Roger Pineau The Japan Expedition, 1852-54. The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. PerryVolume VIII.1. Ken Yamaguchi Kinse Shiriaku; a history of Japan from the first visit of Commodore Perry in 1853 to the capture of Hakodate by the Mikado forces in 18692. Ernest Satow (tr.) Japan 1853-1864 or Genji Yume Monogatari3. Kojimo Matajiro, Commodore Perry's Expedition to Hakodate
Biography
W.G. Beasley is Professor Emeritus at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
