The iwakura mission to america and europe : new assessment /

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in t...

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Other Authors: Nish, Ian (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2014.
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