Zusatztext 'O'Brein has put together an excellent group of essays. They are particularly relevant to those interested in Anglo-Japanese relations! near eastern international relations and modern Japanese history.' - War in History Informationen zum Autor Phillips Payson O'Brien is the Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies and a senior lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy 1900-1936, Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond and articles in Past and Present and the Journal of Strategic Studies. Klappentext The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end, and who reach a number of interesting and innovative conclusions on the agreement's ultimate importance. Zusammenfassung This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction Phillips O'Brien 1. Origins of the Anglo Japanese Alliance: In the Shadow of the Dreibund Ian Nish 2. Towards a Naval Alliance: Some Naval Antecedents to the Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1854-1902 Hamish Ion 3. The Anglo Japanese Alliance and British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1902-1914 Keith Neilson 4. Military Co-operation under the First Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1902-1905 Chiharu Inaba 5. The Secret Dimensions of the Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1900-1905 John Chapman 6. Japan Debates the Anglo Japanese Alliance: The Second Revision of 1911 Frederick R. Dickinson 7. Navalism, Expansionism and War: The Anglo Japanese Alliance and the Japanese Navy Charles Schencking 8. The Japanese Naval Assistance and its Effect on the Australia-Japanese Relations Yoichi Hirama 9. Great Britain and Japan's Entrance into the Great War, 1914-1915 Peter Lowe 10. Bankers, Investors and Risk: British Capital and Japan during the Years of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Janet Hunter 11. Cultural Exchange at the Time of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Noboru Koyama 12. Japanese Art and its Effect on the Art Nouveau Movement in Britain Maggie Tatarkowski 13. The Anglo Japanese Alliance and the Question of Race Akira Iikura 14. India, Pan-Asianism and the Anglo Japanese Alliance Antony Best 15. Armaments and Allies: The Anglo Japanese Strategic Relationship, 1911-1921 John Ferris Britain and the End of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Phillips O'Brien...

Autorentext

Phillips Payson O'Brien is the Director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies and a senior lecturer in history at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include British and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy 1900-1936, Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond and articles in Past and Present and the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Klappentext

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end, and who reach a number of interesting and innovative conclusions on the agreement's ultimate importance.

Zusammenfassung
This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end.

Inhalt
AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsIntroduction Phillips O'Brien 1. Origins of the Anglo Japanese Alliance: In the Shadow of the Dreibund Ian Nish 2. Towards a Naval Alliance: Some Naval Antecedents to the Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1854-1902 Hamish Ion 3. The Anglo Japanese Alliance and British Strategic Foreign Policy, 1902-1914 Keith Neilson 4. Military Co-operation under the First Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1902-1905 Chiharu Inaba 5. The Secret Dimensions of the Anglo Japanese Alliance, 1900-1905 John Chapman 6. Japan Debates the Anglo Japanese Alliance: The Second Revision of 1911 Frederick R. Dickinson 7. Navalism, Expansionism and War: The Anglo Japanese Alliance and the Japanese Navy Charles Schencking 8. The Japanese Naval Assistance and its Effect on the Australia-Japanese Relations Yoichi Hirama 9. Great Britain and Japan's Entrance into the Great War, 1914-1915 Peter Lowe 10. Bankers, Investors and Risk: British Capital and Japan during the Years of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Janet Hunter 11. Cultural Exchange at the Time of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Noboru Koyama 12. Japanese Art and its Effect on the Art Nouveau Movement in Britain Maggie Tatarkowski 13. The Anglo Japanese Alliance and the Question of Race Akira Iikura 14. India, Pan-Asianism and the Anglo Japanese Alliance Antony Best 15. Armaments and Allies: The Anglo Japanese Strategic Relationship, 1911-1921 John Ferris Britain and the End of the Anglo Japanese Alliance Phillips O'Brien