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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis volume reminds us that global history is comprised of the activities and experiences of individuals whose own lives are deeply connected to places, families, and people they encounter. Through personal letters, eyewitness narratives, and historical analysis,
Chronicling Westerners joins expatriats’ ordinary expression of day-to-day concerns with vivid accounts of their extraordinary activities and experiences in nineteenth-century maritime East Asia to demonstrate how the spread of capitalism, imperialism, and nationalism both fostered opportunity and wrought violence and death. Highly recommended. * Catherine L. Phipps, Associate Professor, University of Memphis, USA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. William Alt and Charles Richardson: family, fortune and fortuity in nineteenth-century East Asia, Robert Fletcher
(University of Missouri, USA) and Robert Hellyer (Wake Forest University, USA) 1. Disturbed Reciprocity: Rutherford Alcock’s diplomacy and merchant communities in China and Japan,
Sano Mayuko (Kyoto University, Japan) 2. George S. Morrison and Japan’s First British Consulate at Nagasaki
Brian Burke-Gaffney (Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, Japan) 3. Making Safe the Settlement: the British troops at Yokohama and their influence on foreign Japanese society,
Nakatake (Hori) Kanami (Yokohama Archives of History, Japan) 4. Between Trade and Diplomacy: The Commercial Activities of the Swiss Silk Merchants Siber & Brennwald in late Edo and early Meiji Japan,
Mariko Fukuoka (National Museum of Japanese History, Japan) and Alexis Schwarzenbach (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland) 5. Afterlife of the Wealthy: the burial of merchant communities in nineteenth-century colonial Hong Kong,
Bobby Tam (University of Warwick, UK) 7. Charlotte Jane: National Symbol and Global Reality,
Annette Bainbridge (Independent Scholar, New Zealand) 8. Dreams of Expanding the British Empire: The Life of George Windsor Earl,
Ranald Noel-Paton (Independent Scholar, UK) Bibliography Index
