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The latest, probing look at the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty, the last peace agreement between Japan and Russia
Author : Steven J. Ericson
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584657224
The latest, probing look at the 1905 Portsmouth Peace Treaty, the last peace agreement between Japan and Russia
Author : John Steinberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047411129
Like Volume one, Volume two of The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective examines the Russo-Japanese War in its military, diplomatic, social, political, and cultural context. In this volume East Asian contributors focus on the Asian side of the war to flesh out the assertion that the Russo-Japanese War was, in fact, World War Zero, the first global confl ict of the 20th century. The contributors demonstrate that the Russo-Japanese War, largely forgotten in the aftermath of World War I, actually was a precursor to the catastrophe that engulfed the world less than a decade after the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth. This study also helps us better understand Japan as it emerged at the beginning of its fateful 20th century.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Denis Warner
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
ISBN : 0714682349
The Russo-Japanese War was fought in the waters of the Yellow Sea and the Straits of Tsushima that divide Japan from Korea, and in the mountains of Manchuria, borrowed without permission from China. It was the first war to be fought with modern weapons. The Japanese had fought the Chinese at sea in 1894 and had gained a foothold in Manchuria by taking control of Port Authur. In 1895, however, Japan was forced to abandon its claims by the Russian fleet's presence in the Straits of Tsushima. Tsar Nicholas had obtained a window to the East for his empire and Japan had been humiliated. Tensions between the two countries would rise inexorably over the next decade. Around the world, no one doubted that little Japan would be no match for the mighty armies of Tsar Nicholas II. Yet Russia was in an advanced state of decay, the government corrupt and its troops inept and demoralized. Japan, meanwhile, was emerging from centuries of feudal isolation and becoming an industrial power, led by zealous nationalist warlords keen to lead the Orient to victory over the oppressive West. From the opening surprise attack on the Russian fleet at Port Authur in 1904, the Japanese out-fought and out-thought the Russians. This is a definitive account of one of the pivotal conflicts of the twentieth century whose impact was felt around the world.
Author : Eugene P. Trani
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 32,8 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813164788
Theodore Roosevelt's interest in foreign affairs was no less intense than his zeal for domestic reform, as Eugene P. Trani demonstrates in this new study of the Portsmouth Conference which in 1906 brought an end to the Russo-Japanese war. Conscious of America's growing stature as a world power and concerned lest continued hostilities disrupt further the political and economic composition of East Asia, Roosevelt proclaimed himself peacemaker. With characteristic energy—and with considerable tact—he initiated the conference and successfully brought about a treaty. It was no easy task. Trani, who has made extensive use of Russian, Japanese, and American archival material, shows that the Tsarist government, mortified by Russian defeats, wished to renew the conflict. This last of the personally managed peace conferences greatly enhanced the prestige of both the United States and its ebullient chief executive.
Author : Frederic A. Sharf
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
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Text by Sebastian Dobson, Anne Nishimura Morse, Frederic Sharf.
Author : James Bradley
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0316039667
In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's name. In 2005, a century later, James Bradley traveled in the wake of Roosevelt's mission and discovered what had transpired in Honolulu, Tokyo, Manila, Beijing and Seoul. In 1905, Roosevelt was bully-confident and made secret agreements that he though would secure America's westward push into the Pacific. Instead, he lit the long fuse on the Asian firecrackers that would singe America's hands for a century.
Author : Michiko Nakanishi
Publisher : Peter E. Randall Publisher
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781931807401
Analysis of the key diplomatic figures and events in the Russo-Japanese War; U.S. involvement, international relationships, and the culminating treaty signed in Portsmouth, NH, 1905.
Author : Tyler Dennett
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Eastern question (Far East)
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Author : Masayoshi Matsumura
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0557084105
PAPERBACK. This new translation from Japanese tells the story for the first time in English of Baron Kaneko's one-man diplomatic mission to the U.S. during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), in which he was tasked with winning the hearts and minds of the American people to the Japanese side. He achieved this through personal contacts with major figures including his close friend President Theodore Roosevelt, after-dinner speeches, lectures, press conferences and newspaper interviews, thereby displaying a mastery of the media which seems thoroughly modern in its influence and control. Upholding the principles of Bushido as explained by Nitobe Inazo in his book of that name first published in 1900, he was careful not to attack or slander his Russian opponent Count Cassini and mourned Admiral Makarov's death in battle. 26 B/W images. This volume includes an extensive bibliography, a chronology and an index. (Also available as a hardcover, small paperback or download from lulu.com, and at online retail stores.)