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Gaines, Ann Graham

Commodore Perry Opens Japan to Trade in World History

128 pp. | Enslow | December, 2000 | Library ISBN 0-7660-1462-2 $$20.95
(3) 4-6 In World History series. As a high-ranking naval officer with a commanding personality, Matthew Perry was sent with four warships in 1853 to do what no one until then had accomplished: force Japan to trade with the United States. By a mixture of will, diplomacy, and military threat he succeeded, as Gaines relates in this readable account, which is complemented with black-and-white photos, maps, and a time line. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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