Commodore Perry's 1853 Japanese Expedition: How Whaling Influenced the Event that Revolutionized Japan
In July 1853, Commodore Matthew C. Perry illegally entered Tokyo Bay with a fleet of four American warships and challenged Japan's isolationist position towards the United States. This radical diplomatic effort concluded with a return voyage a year later and ended Japan's self-imposed iso...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32698 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05132005-131722/ |