🔴 🇯🇵 J. R. Seeley And Japan's Pacific Expansion

"Korhonen's essay began with a striking claim:

The first person ever to use the term Pacific Age was the Japanese political economist Inagaki Manjirō. Inagaki studied the history of Great Britain's expansionary policies under the guidance of the British historian John Robert Seeley at Cambridge University during the late 1880s. Seeley had been influenced by the German geographer Carl Ritter. Through Inagaki a certain style of European nineteenth-century visionary rhetoric was introduced into discussions about the Pacific future. That is an interesting point in itself, but even more interesting are the shifts in perspective that resulted from this transference of concepts into a different context."

DUSINBERRE, M. (2021) ‘J. R. SEELEY AND JAPAN’S PACIFIC EXPANSION’, The Historical Journal, 64(1), pp. 70–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000591.

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