Japan and the Pacific, and a Japanese View of the Eastern Question

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Manjiro Inagaki. Japan and the Pacific, and a Japanese View of the Eastern Question

Japan and the Pacific, and a Japanese View of the Eastern Question

Table of Contents

PREFACE

LIST OF MAPS

PART I. JAPAN AND THE PACIFIC

PART II. THE EASTERN QUESTION

I. FOREIGN POLICY OF ENGLAND DURING THE SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH, AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Three Wars of Revenge

II. FOREIGN POLICY OF RUSSIA DURING THE REIGNS OF PETER THE GREAT, CATHERINE II., AND ALEXANDER I

Peter the Great (1689–1725)

Catherine II. (1762–1796)

Alexander I. (1801–1825)

III. THE NEW EUROPEAN SYSTEM

IV. GREEK INDEPENDENCE

Nicholas I. (1825–1855)

V. THE CRIMEAN WAR

VI. THE BLACK SEA CONFERENCE

VII. THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR OF 1878

Bulgaria

Eastern Roumelia

Crete, &c

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Montenegro, Servia, and Roumania

Cessions in Asia

The Anglo-Turkish Convention

VIII. REMARKS UPON THE TREATY OF BERLIN

The Anglo-Turkish Convention

IX. CENTRAL ASIA

England’s Opponents in British India

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Manjiro Inagaki

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Russia, however, has worked in quite a different way, and is strengthening the defences at Vladivostock both in military and naval forces, and is acting towards the Corea in a gradually-increasing aggressive spirit, which had succeeded in Europe and Central Asia previously for more than one hundred and fifty years.

Lord Derby well described the Russian tactics in the following speech:—“It has never been preceded by storm, but by sap and mine. The first process has been invariably that of fomenting discontent and dissatisfaction amongst the subjects of subordinate states, then proffering mediation, then offering assistance to the weaker party, then declaring the independence of that party, then placing that independence under the protection of Russia, and finally, from protection proceeding to the incorporation, one by one, of those states into the gigantic body of the Russian Empire.”

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