Trade and diplomacy: the beginning of Spanish-Japanese relations (1853-1863)
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With the opening of Japan after the success of Meiji Revolution the international relationships taken great importance, the principal powers rushed to have beneficial commercial and advice treatrys. In these context, Spain was been in a privilege situation to establish diplomatic relations, this by the possessions of Spain had in the Pacific, oportunity had been wasted in the first moment. Afraid a similar destiny that Chinesse Empire, the new Meiji goberment began a modernization procedure, in less that 50 years, would take them to win one european power in a war (Russo-Japanise War 1904-1905). Analising the documentation founded in archives, as the National Historic Archive, and making one large interpretation of the facts, in the metodologic line using in the “Global History” studies, we will search meet this important process, success and fails, has been essentials in the international relationship between Spain And Japan.
This investigation pretent to give a new vision in the international relationships in Oriental Asia at the finals of XIX century, give to meet details until now unknow, generate new questions to impulse to enlarge the knowledge, definibly, open a 'new road' of investigation en the Oriental Asia Studies, in this case, the international relationships between Spain and Japan.
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