Japanese Account of US History, 1907

[North American History (Imperial Encyclopedia, Vol. 163)] Hokubei gasshukoku shi (Teikoku hyakka zensho; dai 163-hen)

Yamamoto, Nobuhiro

Notes: A history of the United States, published on May 15, 1907, three months to the day following the signing of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which significantly curtailed Japanese immigration to the United States. This entry in the massive Imperial Encyclopedia, which filled hundreds of volumes over two decades, gives an overview of US history, from the first European settlements on the East Coast to Theodore Roosevelt's mediation efforts to end the Russo-Japanese War.

Perhaps not surprising for a work published in a country whose history is organized into eras based on the reigns of emperors, this book tells US history through the lens of presidential administrations. With tens of thousands of Japanese citizens emigrating to the US each year during the decade preceding the publication of this volume, interest in US history and culture was high when this book appeared.

[4], 6, 310, [8] pages.

OCLC: 52581939, 672531006; 1912 second printing: 47570324, 835010758 [NB: last part of title romanized variously as gasshukokushi; gasshukoku shi; and gasshu kokushi)

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing of this volume). Covers lightly chipped; stapled rusted and beginning to crumble; spine chipped, and thus good only.

Publication: Tokyo: Hakubunkan, 1907 (Meiji 40).

Item No: #362170

Price: $500