The ghost of Namamugi : Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma war / by Robert S.G. Fletcher.
In 1862, a British merchant was killed by samurai at Namamugi, a quiet village near Yokohama. One year later, a British fleet bombarded Kagoshima to extract reparations, reducing much of this south-western city to ash. This captivating re-telling, locates the story firmly within the wider context of...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Cambridge) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Kent :
Renaissance Books,
2019.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 'Afloat and settled in China', 1853-1862
- The British Empire and Bakumatsu Japan, 1862-1863
- Anatomy of an 'outrage', 1862-1864
- Namamugi remembered
- Part II: The letters of Charles Lenox Richardson, 1853-1862.