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Enterprise and Society 2007 8(4):967-968; doi:10.1093/es/khm099
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853

George Feifer. Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853. New York: Smithsonian Books, 2006. xx + 389 pp. ISBN-10: 0-06-088432-0, $25.95 (Hardback)

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Commodore Matthew Perry commanded a squadron of US Navy ships that sailed east from Norfolk in November, 1852, carrying a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the Japanese Government. In it, the USA asked Japan, which had been essentially closed to westerners for more than two centuries, to provide for the humane treatment and return of US seamen—mostly whalers—shipwrecked in Japanese waters, to open Japanese ports to US ships for provisioning and refueling, and to establish trading relationships—Perry at . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Richard Sylla

New York University


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