Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in AmericaLexington Books, 2004 - 163 pàgines 'Mori notes, 'Where men think that they know everything, and boast of their superior wisdom, the presumption is that they have yet much to learn.' . . . [T]oday's readers, whether in the United States, in Japan, or elsewhere, who may think they already know so much about the subject, will find much of value in Life and Resources in America.' --Akira Iriye, Harvard University, from the foreword Mori Arinori's Life and Resources in America was written by the young, educated ex-samurai the Japanese government selected as its first diplomatic representative in the United States. Originally published in English in Washington, D.C., in 1871, this book sheds much light on the shape of an American society, government, and economy recovering from the Civil War. Like earlier philosopher-tourists such as Alexis de Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau, Mori understands the United States as a stage upon which an important experiment in democracy, pluralism, and liberalism is unfolding. Life and Resources in America is distinct for its view from the Reconstruction period and by a non-European observer. Historian John E. Van Sant has annotated and lightly edited this uniquely illuminating text, making it readily accessible to the contemporary audience it deserves. |
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Pàgina vii
... Western order of given name first and family name second when writing in English . Footnotes , endnotes , and the bibliography are in Western bibliographic style . Foreword When we think of foreign observations about the United vii Note ...
... Western order of given name first and family name second when writing in English . Footnotes , endnotes , and the bibliography are in Western bibliographic style . Foreword When we think of foreign observations about the United vii Note ...
Pàgina xv
... Western powers of Spain and Portugal , and forced Dutch merchants to live and work on a small , heavily guarded island in Nagasaki Bay . By the mid - nineteenth century , however . Japan was no longer an economic or military match for ...
... Western powers of Spain and Portugal , and forced Dutch merchants to live and work on a small , heavily guarded island in Nagasaki Bay . By the mid - nineteenth century , however . Japan was no longer an economic or military match for ...
Pàgina xvi
... Western countries , except for limited contact allowed with the Dutch . After the Opium War of 1839-1841 between the British and the nearby Middle Kingdom of China , it became ob- vious to foresighted Japanese that someday the ...
... Western countries , except for limited contact allowed with the Dutch . After the Opium War of 1839-1841 between the British and the nearby Middle Kingdom of China , it became ob- vious to foresighted Japanese that someday the ...
Pàgina xviii
... Western studies . MORI ARINORI'S WESTERN EDUCATION Mori Arinori ( 1847-1889 ) was born and raised in Satsuma during this mid- nineteenth - century era of internal and external strife and transformation in Japan.10 From a relatively high ...
... Western studies . MORI ARINORI'S WESTERN EDUCATION Mori Arinori ( 1847-1889 ) was born and raised in Satsuma during this mid- nineteenth - century era of internal and external strife and transformation in Japan.10 From a relatively high ...
Pàgina xix
... Western sci- ence had expanded into the realm of Western cultural values , values which were still new to the young Japanese samurai . Furthermore . Mori and the oth- ers were young and eager to explore and learn of the United States ...
... Western sci- ence had expanded into the realm of Western cultural values , values which were still new to the young Japanese samurai . Furthermore . Mori and the oth- ers were young and eager to explore and learn of the United States ...
Continguts
Official and Political Life | 5 |
Life among the Farmers and Planters | 15 |
Commercial Life and Developments | 31 |
Life among the Mechanics | 43 |
Religious Life and Institutions | 51 |
Life in the Factories | 69 |
Educational Life and Institutions | 81 |
Literary Artistic and Scientific Life | 93 |
Life in the Leading Cities | 119 |
Frontier Life and Developments | 129 |
Judicial Life | 135 |
Final Thoughts on America1 | 139 |
Religious Freedom in Japan | 141 |
The Religious Charter of the Empire of Dai Nippon | 149 |
Selected Bibliography | 151 |
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