 | Opening a Window to the West: The Foreign Concession at Kobe, Japan, 1868-1899 Subjects: Concessions -- Japan -- Kōbe-shi -- History -- 19th century; Land use -- Japan -- Kōbe-shi -- History -- 19th century; Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century; Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Historical geography; Kōbe-shi (Japan) -- Economic conditio; 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. Ennals Peter : Peter Ennals is a professor emeritus of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. |
