A Pioneer in Yokohama
A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port
C.T. Assendelft de Coningh, translated by Martha Chaiklin
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In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a unique perspective on the economic, military, and political forces the Western imperial powers brought to bear on newly opened Japan.
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Martha Chaiklin is Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh.
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