A Yankee in Hokkaido The Life of William Smith Clark,9780739104170

A Yankee in Hokkaido The Life of William Smith Clark

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ISBN13: 9780739104170
ISBN10: 0739104179
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-11-06
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

A biography of diplomat William Smith Clark, an exponent of the modernization of Japan in the nineteenth century and founder of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Author Biography

John M. Maki is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has also taught at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Brett L. Walker
Preface xv
The Man and the Families
1(16)
The Making of an Academician
17(40)
The Civil War: An Interlude
57(20)
Massachusetts Agricultural College
77(40)
The Road to Hokkaido
117(30)
Sapporo Agricultural College
147(22)
The Work of Three Men
169(28)
Voyage Home
197(22)
From MAC to the Floating College
219(30)
``Clark & Bothwell''
249(32)
Death and Heritage
281(10)
Notes on Sources 291(8)
Bibliography 299

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