[A New Study of American National Character] Beikoku kokuminsei no shinkenkyu

Suzuki, Hansaburo

Notes: "A study of the American character based for the most part upon Henry Van Dyke's The Spirit of America (1910) and Hugo Munsterberg's The Americans (1908) by the author who spent 8 years in America. Discusses the immigration question and the exclusion movement in Chapter 8 which is entitled "Jinshu mondai" [Racial problems], pp. 351–400."—A Buried Past, 189.

There are also sections devoted to explaining the differences in the status of women in the US versus Japan and on the place of African Americans in American society.

8, 11, 4, 400 pages plus eight inserted halftone plates.

OCLC: 24892798 (Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard), 673628279 (National Diet Library), 834570059 (Waseda)

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy (one gathering a bit sprung), else a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's cardstock sleeve. Sleeve grubby and discolored, but about very good.

Publication: Tokyo: Ryakuyodo, 1916 (Taisho 5).

Item No: #362072

Price: $750