| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Note |
This ed. originally published: 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The singular life of the nineteenth-century Scottish merchant who brought the West to Japan is illuminated in this fascinating biography: "This is a great story" (Financial Times). In Scottish Samurai, biographer Alexander McKay chronicles Thomas Blake Glover's influential life in the East. 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 modern arms and war-winning, Scottish-designed warships. Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback for Glover, who 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" became 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 brought back home. Today, Glover is regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Japanese economic miracle |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Glover, Thomas Blake, 1838-1911.
|
|
Glover, Thomas Blake, 1838-1911 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRT3BmyYd4q4ycDRdhHC |
|
Merchants -- Scotland -- Biography.
|
|
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-1918.
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. |
|
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan. |
|
Economic history |
|
Merchants |
|
Japan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq |
|
Scotland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRx4M4xHbtFTRj7p6BmM |
| Chronological Term |
1868-1918 |
| Genre/Form |
Biography
|
|
Biographies
|
|
Biographies.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: McKay, Alexander. Scottish Samurai. 2nd ed. Edinburgh : Canongate, 2012 9780857866158 (OCoLC)800866319 |
| ISBN |
9780857867308 (electronic bk.) |
|
085786730X (electronic bk.) |
|
9780857866158 |
|
085786615X |
|
