Andrew Cobbing
Biographic Data
| ID | 542339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Cobbing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Cobbing |
| SIGNATURE | COBBING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond the Treaty Limits: Pushing the Boundaries in Meiji Japan
Opening Legations: Japan’s First Resident Minister and the Diplomatic Corps in Europe
This analysis shows how Japanese legations, first established in Europe during the 1870s, were not just symbolic gestures but played a key role in the Meiji government’s quest for international recognition. The concept of resident ambassador was unfamiliar beyond the European world, so the transition from sending visiting envoys to establishing permanent missions was a pivotal stage. Here a comparative framework gauges the importance of Japan’s n…
A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality
In 1856, the Treaty of Paris nominally welcomed the Ottoman Empire into the Concert of Europe, but this exposed a deep fault line in international relations. Although the gesture implied full sovereign rights, it seemed incompatible with the extraterritorial privileges held by Europeans in Ottoman lands under the age-old capitulations. New commercial treaties complicated the issue by extending similar privileges to British subjects as far afield …
Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century by Sadiah Qureshi
Reviewed by: Andrew Cobbing, The University of NottinghamPeoples on Parade , a magisterial work that takes the reader on a guided tour through Victorian exhibitions, brings a sensitive approach to the emotive theme of humans on display. Often viewed with horror now, even at the time such exhibitions were trivialized as freak or dismissed as pseudoscience, notably by early anthropologists guarding their own field. Qureshi offers a more nuanced rea…
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God, by Emily Anderson
This book may seem to be based on an incongruous premiss, given the perceived conflict of loyalty often associated with Japanese Christians in reconciling their faith with their duty to the emperor-centred state. After the Imperial Rescript on Education in 1890, for example, some allegedly hesitated to bow in reverence before the official portrait of the emperor. Half a century later, near the end of the Pacific War, a Japanese Christian settleme…
The logic of conformity: Japan’s entry into international society, by Tomoko T Okagaki; Völkerrechtsdenken und Außenpolitik in Japan, 1919−1960 (The discourse on international law and foreign policy i…
Tomoko T Okagaki The logic of conformity: entry into international society Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 208pp., $43.73 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4426-4188-4Urs Matthias Zachmann Volkerrechtsdenken und Ausenpolitik in Japan, 1919-1960 (The discourse on international law and foreign policy in Japan, 1919-1960) Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013. 436pp., euro102.00 (paperback) ISBN 978-3-8329-6981-3Meiji rapid response to the West often viewed in term…
Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu
The Hakata Merchant’s World: Cultural Networks in a Centre of Maritime Trade
In a land where everything from the imperial regalia onwards is often arranged in threes, one familiar cast of characters goes by the name of the 'Three Merchants of Japan'. These are the traders of Omi, Osaka and Ise; their territory - a broad swathe of central Honshu where, in the early modern era, they fostered the growth of the 'Three Great Cities': Kyoto, Osaka and Edo. Another archetypal figure notably absent from this group is the Hakata m…
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attentio…
Kyushu: Gateway to Japan
In this first major study of the region in English, the author examines the key themes of Kyushu's history from earliest times – the cultural interaction with the continental mainland, settlement, location and infrastructure as well as trade and commerce, – arguing that it was the principal stepping-stone in terms of Japan's cultural, social and economic advance through history up to the present day. Although an integral part of Japan, Kyushu is …
The Satsuma Students in Britain: "Japan's Early Search for the "Essence of the West
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West
The Satsuma Students in Britain: "Japan's Early Search for the "Essence of the West
Kyushu: Gateway to Japan
In this first major study of the region in English, the author examines the key themes of Kyushu's history from earliest times – the cultural interaction with the continental mainland, settlement, location and infrastructure as well as trade and commerce, – arguing that it was the principal stepping-stone in terms of Japan's cultural, social and economic advance through history up to the present day. Although an integral part of Japan, Kyushu is …
Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu
The Hakata Merchant’s World: Cultural Networks in a Centre of Maritime Trade
In a land where everything from the imperial regalia onwards is often arranged in threes, one familiar cast of characters goes by the name of the 'Three Merchants of Japan'. These are the traders of Omi, Osaka and Ise; their territory - a broad swathe of central Honshu where, in the early modern era, they fostered the growth of the 'Three Great Cities': Kyoto, Osaka and Edo. Another archetypal figure notably absent from this group is the Hakata m…
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attentio…
The logic of conformity: Japan’s entry into international society, by Tomoko T Okagaki; Völkerrechtsdenken und Außenpolitik in Japan, 1919−1960 (The discourse on international law and foreign policy i…
Tomoko T Okagaki The logic of conformity: entry into international society Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 208pp., $43.73 (cloth) ISBN 978-1-4426-4188-4Urs Matthias Zachmann Volkerrechtsdenken und Ausenpolitik in Japan, 1919-1960 (The discourse on international law and foreign policy in Japan, 1919-1960) Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013. 436pp., euro102.00 (paperback) ISBN 978-3-8329-6981-3Meiji rapid response to the West often viewed in term…
Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century by Sadiah Qureshi
Reviewed by: Andrew Cobbing, The University of NottinghamPeoples on Parade , a magisterial work that takes the reader on a guided tour through Victorian exhibitions, brings a sensitive approach to the emotive theme of humans on display. Often viewed with horror now, even at the time such exhibitions were trivialized as freak or dismissed as pseudoscience, notably by early anthropologists guarding their own field. Qureshi offers a more nuanced rea…
Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God, by Emily Anderson
This book may seem to be based on an incongruous premiss, given the perceived conflict of loyalty often associated with Japanese Christians in reconciling their faith with their duty to the emperor-centred state. After the Imperial Rescript on Education in 1890, for example, some allegedly hesitated to bow in reverence before the official portrait of the emperor. Half a century later, near the end of the Pacific War, a Japanese Christian settleme…
Opening Legations: Japan’s First Resident Minister and the Diplomatic Corps in Europe
This analysis shows how Japanese legations, first established in Europe during the 1870s, were not just symbolic gestures but played a key role in the Meiji government’s quest for international recognition. The concept of resident ambassador was unfamiliar beyond the European world, so the transition from sending visiting envoys to establishing permanent missions was a pivotal stage. Here a comparative framework gauges the importance of Japan’s n…
A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality
In 1856, the Treaty of Paris nominally welcomed the Ottoman Empire into the Concert of Europe, but this exposed a deep fault line in international relations. Although the gesture implied full sovereign rights, it seemed incompatible with the extraterritorial privileges held by Europeans in Ottoman lands under the age-old capitulations. New commercial treaties complicated the issue by extending similar privileges to British subjects as far afield …
Beyond the Treaty Limits: Pushing the Boundaries in Meiji Japan
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