The estrangement of Great Britain and Japan, 1917-35
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1969. First Edition. Good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Front free endpaper lacking. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477733
ISBN: 0719003520
Physical description; [7], 363 pages, 7 plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-348). Contents; War-time ally – Intervention in Siberia – Mastery of the Far East – The end of an alliance – Political and physical earthquakes – Shadows of coming events – The turn of an imperial era – Developments during the Tanaka régime – First rumbles of the approaching storm – The calm before the storm – The London Naval Conference and internal unrest – Ominous portents – The Manchurian eruption and its reverberations – Internal convulsions and birth of Manchoukuo – Increasing tensions – Government by assassination – Manchoukuo developments – Japan, the League, and Great Britain – The changing face of external relations – The internal scene – Manchuria, the keystone – National policies and national defence. Subjects; Great Britain – Foreign relations – Japan – 1917-1935. Japan – Foreign relations – Great Britain – 1917-1935.
Price: €10.95