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Henning, Joseph Michael.

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Race, religion, and civilization: The United States and Japan, 1868-1905.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Race, religion, and civilization: The United States and Japan, 1868-1905./
作者:	Henning, Joseph Michael.
面頁冊數:	409 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 9310.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-03A.
標題:	American history. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9826674
ISBN:	9780591790337

Race, religion, and civilization: The United States and Japan, 1868-1905.
Henning, Joseph Michael.

Race, religion, and civilization: The United States and Japan, 1868-1905. - 409 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-03, Section: A, page: 9310.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University, 1998.

This dissertation explores American and Japanese discourses on race, religion, and civilization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As the first Asian and non-Christian nation to become a modern power, Meiji Japan (1868-1912) presented an anomaly to Americans who assumed that civilization and progress were inseparable from Anglo-Saxon ancestry and Christianity. Acutely aware of this dilemma, Japanese officials worked to influence U.S. policy and public opinion. In diplomatic relations and the American press, they assured Americans that Japan had adopted the central tenets of Western civilization, which both nations identified as constitutional government, freedom of religion, and open commerce. In response, most Americans modified rather than jettisoned their assumptions about race and religion. To avoid separating civilization from Christianity, American diplomats, scholars, and missionaries depicted Japan as East Asia's guarantor of religious freedom. To avoid abandoning the concept of racial hierarchy, they categorized the Japanese as adoptive Anglo-Saxons who were promoting Western civilization and commerce. Americans manipulated Japan's success to confirm their belief that modern progress was synonymous with Anglo-Saxon ancestry and Christianity. To the satisfaction of the Japanese, this ensured revision of the unequal treaties and American sympathy in their wars with China (1894-95) and Russia (1904-05).

ISBN: 9780591790337Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.

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