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Scottish Samurai
- Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911
Engelsk Paperback

Scottish Samurai

- Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911
Engelsk Paperback

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Thomas Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with war-winning, Scottish-designed warships, and modern arms. Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries.

As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired Puccini''s Madam Butterfly. This ''Scottish Samurai'' was to become an adviser to the Japanese government; he also arranged for many Japanese to visit Britain and see the wonders of the industrial revolution, a lesson they enthusiastically absorbed. Today, Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780857866158
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
085786615X
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Udg. Dato:
16 feb 2012
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
132mm
Forlag:
Canongate Books
Oplagsdato:
16 feb 2012
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