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Layered Sovereignties and Contested Seas: Recent Histories of Maritime Japan - Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book). - Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). * - Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper). - Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan. By Noell Wilson . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. xiii, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780674504349 (cloth). *
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Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations. By Joshua Fogel . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014. 301 pp. ISBN: 9780520283305 (cloth, also available as e-book).
Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858–1899. By Catherine L. Phipps . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 308 pp. ISBN: 9780674417168 (cloth). *
Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan. By Peter D. Shapinsky . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014. xiii, 327 pp. ISBN: 9781929280803 (cloth, also available in paper).
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