 COMPILED AND EDITED BY
Hugh Cortazzi
Published in association with the Japan Society
with
Ian Nish
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Peter Lowe
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
J. E. Hoare
SOAS
ISBN 978-1-901903-51-5 - 480pp - Case - Illustrated
January 2004 - £50.00
| KEY FEATURE(S): The first comprehensive collection of pen-portraits of every envoy who ran the British mission in Japan – from the first Sir Rutherford Alcock, in 1859 to Sir John Pilcher in 1972, the last of the ‘scholar diplomats’. |
With over thirty contributions, the volume is divided into four sections with special introductions by leading scholars in their field – 1859-1900 (Hugh Cortazzi), 1900-1945 (Ian Nish) and 1945-1972 (Peter Lowe), with the final part dedicated to ‘scholar diplomats and other outstanding diplomatic personalities and Japan’ (J.E.Hoare), which includes Ernest Satow, W.G.Aston and George Sansom. In addition, there are various Appendixes, including (in full) the Valedictory Despatches of Esler Dening and Oscar Morland, as well as biographical entries for all other senior diplomatic figures throughout the 112-year period. No other study of British diplomatic history and Japan offers such comprehensive coverage of ‘H. M. Representatives’ and the events that marked their period of office.
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