The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies [Hardcover]

Steven Ericson (Editor), Allen Hockley (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1584657227 | ISBN-13: 978-1584657224 | Publication Date: October 31, 2008 | Edition: 1st

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and making of that treaty and its long-term implications for international relations. Over forty North American, Japanese, and Russian scholars and practitioners participated in the forum. The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies presents eight outstanding conference papers, revised for publication, and two additional papers solicited to round out the scholarship. Together these papers illuminate diplomacy before and after the war, the peace process, the political and cultural legacies of Portsmouth, and the treaty's significance for Asia-Pacific relations today.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Generally speaking, the entire volume is well worth reading. It provides excellent summaries of the major interpretations of its authors. It would be a good companion piece for an undergraduate student together with a general history text. It offers a short summary to allow a motivated reader to go on to the longer monographs on the war and peace. The meaty endnotes to each essay include excellent bibliographies for the interest reader who wishes to know more. I commend Ericson and Hockley for organizing the conference and for providing us with an excellent volume to whet our interest on the important topic. They have brought us an excellent piece of scholarship that will be received with much appreciation of the treaty." --Journal of Japanese Studies

"The conference papers published here contribute important historical and diplomatic insights." --Historical New Hampshire

Grouped under three headings: the diplomatic aspects of the treaty, its legacies, and its contemporary implications. . . The four contributions by Japanese scholars are especially valuable since the materials in their language are not normally accessible to Russian specialists." --Slavic Review

Review

"A unique analysis, the work of an extraordinary group of international scholars, this book offers fresh and penetrating views of the diplomacy of an important conflict--'World War Zero,' provoked by Russia's first war with Japan, 1904-05." (John Curtis Perry, Henry Willard Denison Professor of Japanese Diplomatic History, Tufts University )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 268 pages
• Publisher: Dartmouth College Press; 1st edition (October 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584657227
• ISBN-13: 978-1584657224
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,828,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)