ABSTRACT
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This book brings together many leading experts who examine the different aspects of the Alliance in its different stages before, during and after the First World War, who explore the reasons for its success and for its end, and who reach a number of interesting and innovative conclusions on the agreement's ultimate importance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|22 pages
Towards a naval alliance
Some naval antecedents to the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1854–1902
chapter 4|18 pages
Military co-operation under the first Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1905
The beginnings of military co-operation
chapter 7|18 pages
Navalism, naval expansion and war
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Japanese Navy
chapter 10|23 pages
Bankers, investors and risk
British capital and Japan during the years of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance