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3 - Yokohama for the British in the Late Nineteenth Century: A Hub for Imperial Defence and a Node of Influence for Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2019

T. G. Otte
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University of East Anglia
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The impact of Japan on the development of British strategic foreign policy in East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s was a consistent but subordinate theme in Keith Neilson’s writings. Neilson stressed that naval capacities helped to determine British Far Eastern policy, and underlined the centrality of imperial maritime history in the history of British–East Asian relations. This case study of the British and Yokohama in the late nineteenth century will show that the high policies of Admiralty, Treasury and Foreign Office that Neilson so astutely illuminated also had at the local level an impact and often a lasting influence that went beyond military, economic and diplomatic affairs into the social and cultural realms. It stresses the importance of international relations at the local level and the role of the individual and individual organizations of which the Royal Navy’s China squadron was one in Anglo-Japanese relations.

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Print publication year: 2019

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