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Author Blumberg, Rhoda.

Title Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun / by Rhoda Blumberg.

Publication Info. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, [1985]
©1985

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DS881.8 .B53 1985    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description 144 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
age Children
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 139-140.
Note Includes index.
Summary Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.
Contents 1. Aliens arrive -- 2. The black ships of the evil men -- 3. His high and mighty mysteriousness -- 4. Landing on sacred soil -- 5. The Dutch Island prison -- 6. Foreigners forbidden -- 7. The great peace -- 8. Clouds over the land of the rising sun -- 9. The black ships return -- 10. The treaty house -- 11. An array of gifts -- 12. The grand banquet -- 13. The treaty -- 14. Excursions on land and sea -- 15. Shore leave -- 16. In the wake of the black ships.
Subject United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854) -- Juvenile literature.
United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)
United States -- Foreign relations -- Japan -- Juvenile literature.
United States.
International relations.
Japan.
Japan -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858 -- Juvenile literature.
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858.
ISBN 0688037232
9780688037239