TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nish,Ian
TI  - The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: Volume 1 
T2  - Asian Studies - Book Archive 2000-2006
SN  - 9781901903126
AV  - DS517 
U1  - 952.031 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
KW  - History
KW  - Japan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Ian Nish -- Map — Major battles of the Russo-Japanese War; Ian Nish -- Historical Introduction; Ian Nish -- Map — North-East Asia; Ian Nish -- Books in this Collection; Ian Nish -- 1:1 ‘Internal affairs of Russia’ – Extract from V.I. Gurko, Features and Figures of the Past: Government and Opinion in the Reign of Nicholas II . Stanford: University Press, 1939, pp. 272–291; Ian Nish -- 1:2 ‘Marquis Ito’s attempt at reconciliation with Russia, 1901’ – Telegrams translated from Nihon Gaiko Bunsho , Meiji series, volume 35, Tokyo: Foreign Ministry, 1957, doc. 26; Ian Nish -- 1:3 ‘Korea between Russia and Japan, 1900–4’ – Paper by Ian Nish published in Papers of Sixth Annual Conference of Association of Korean Studies in Europe , Seoul: Korea Research Foundation, 1982, pp. 183–99; Ian Nish -- 1:4 ‘Russian position in Manchuria, 1903’ – Report by Lt. Colonel G. Wingate to British War Office, 18 June 1903, in British Documents on Foreign Affairs , Part I, Series E, vol. 8, Washington: University Publications of America, 1989, doc. 24, pp. 28–9 [hereafter cited as ‘BDOFA’]; Ian Nish -- 1:5 ‘General Kuropatkin in Japan, June 1903’ – Paper by Ian Nish published in Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies , 1984, pp. 87–95; Ian Nish -- 1:6 ‘An American view of Russian ambitions’ – Extract from Robley D. Evans, An Admiral’s Log , New York: Appleton, 1910, pp. 159–175; Ian Nish -- 2:1 ‘Port Arthur at the outbreak of war’ – Extract from Ernest Brindle, With the Russians, Japanese and Chunchuse , London: John Murray, 1905; Ian Nish -- 2:2 ‘Operations of the Russian Railways’ – Extract from North Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway , Harbin: CER Printing Office, 1924, pp. 34–8; Ian Nish -- 2:3 ‘A Japanese Spy in Manchuria: Ishimitsu Makiyo’ – From Collected Writings of Ian Nish , Part II, Richmond: Japan Library, 2001, pp. 133–8; Ian Nish -- 2:4 ‘Port Arthur and captivity in Japan’ – Extract from (Count) Constantine Benckendorff, Half a Life , London: Richards Press, 1955, pp. 68–84; Ian Nish -- 3:1 ‘Admiral Togo’s Report on the Battle of Tsushima, May 1905’ – Taken from F.T. Jane, The Imperial Japanese Navy , London: Thacker, 1904, pp. 411–23; Ian Nish -- 3:2 Wartime life in St Petersburg – Extracts from (Lord) Charles Hardinge, Old Diplomacy , London: John Murray, 1947, ch. 9; Ian Nish -- 3:3 Wartime life in Tokyo – Extracts from (Sir) Thomas Hohler, Diplomatic Petrel , London: John Murray, 1942, chs 11-12; Ian Nish -- 3:4 ‘Japan’s finances during the war’ – Soeya Juichi’s ‘Letters from Japan’, contributed to The Economic Journal , 1904–5; Ian Nish -- 4:1 ‘The atmosphere at the Portsmouth Peace Conference, 1905’ – Paper by Ian Nish, ‘Dr G.E. Morrison and the Portsmouth Conference’ in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , 48(1963), pp. 426–35; Ian Nish -- 4:2 Hibiya Park riots after the Portsmouth treaty, September 1905 – Three Reports by Sir Claude MacDonald to British Foreign Office in BDOFA , I/E, vol. 8, doc. 353, pp. 320–2, doc. 354, pp 323, doc. 358, p. 325; Ian Nish -- 4:3 ‘Postwar Manchuria, 1907’ – Extract from A. Gorton Angier, The Far East Revisited , London: Witherby, 1908; Ian Nish -- 4:4 ‘Marquis Ito’s Policies in Korea, 1907’ – Part of an article by F.T. Piggott, ‘The Ito Legend’ in Nineteenth Century , Jan. 1910, p. 180ff; Ian Nish -- 4:5 ‘Natsume Soseki’s Travels in Manchuria, 1909’ – Extracts from I.S. Brodey and S.I. Tsunematsu (eds.), Rediscovering Natsume Soseki , Folkestone: Global Oriental, 2000; Ian Nish -- 4:6 ‘Criticisms on the official history of the Russo-Japanese War (Senshi Hyoron)’ – Reproduced in BDOFA , I/E, vol. 8, doc. 337, pp. 292–304; Ian Nish -- Index; Ian Nish
N2  - An in-depth look at reports, documents, etc. describing one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century. It was the first time that the East (Japan) fought and defeated the West (Russia). It has been described as the first step on the way to the First and Second World Wars. The print edition is available as a set of eight volumes (9781901903065)
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004531789
ER  -