Historical Nagasaki

Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Deutschland) GmbH, 1983-11-01. Paperback. Very Good. Japan Times [Published Date: 1983]. Soft cover, in wraps, 153 pp. Stated First edition, November, 1983. In very good condition. Glossy illustrated wraps over black and white illustrated paper covers. Light bumping and creasing to edges of covers and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Previous owner's name in scratched out in ink on front free end paper. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations throughout. Historial Nagasaki tells he history of the city, the way it grew and the human encounters which took place there. Nagasaki is an outgrowth of the first encounters between Japanese and Europeans. It played an important part in the history of Japanese Christianity and later in the development of modern science in Japan.This book ends with a description of its destruction by the atomic bomb in 1945. The readers will become aware of a paradox of history, for Nagasaki was destroyed by a product of the very science which it helped to introduce to Japan. Contents include: The Foundation of Nagasaki; Nagasaki as âImperial Cityâ; The Christian Persecutions; The Dutch at Nagasaki; The Chinese at Nagasaki; The Maruyama Pleasure Girls; The Dawn of Western Science; Nagasaki and the Opening of Japan; Nagasakiâs Modern Century; Epilogue: The Bomb; Maps; Selective Bibliography (Western languages); Selective Bibliography (Japanese); Index