Setting the stage : the role of ports in the encounter between East and West in Japan -- The creation of Kōbe's foreign concession -- Establishing municipal government and services in the concession -- Forging an economy : the basis for mercantile trade -- Finding a mercantile staple for Kōbe : the tea and silk trades -- The morphology of the settlement and the development of a pleasing townscape -- Life at the end of the world : forming an expatriate society in Kōbe -- Measuring success in the concession
Summary
The first book-length study of Kōbe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index
