The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies

by Steven Ericson (Editor), Allen Hockley (Editor)

Overview

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and making of that treaty and its long-term implications for international relations. Over forty North American, Japanese, and Russian scholars and practitioners participated in the forum. The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies presents eight outstanding conference papers, revised for publication, and two additional papers solicited to round out the scholarship. Together these papers illuminate diplomacy before and after the war, the peace process, the political and cultural legacies of Portsmouth, and the treaty’s significance for Asia-Pacific relations today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781584657224
Publisher:	Dartmouth College Press
Publication date:	10/31/2008
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

STEVEN ERICSON is associate professor of History, Dartmouth College. ALLEN HOCKLEY is associate professor of Art History, Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments • Introduction – Allen Hockley and Steven Ericson • DIPLOMACY AND THE PEACE • Russia’s Relations with Japan Before and After the War: An Episode in the Diplomacy of Imperialism – David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye • Japanese Diplomacy Before and After the War: The Turning Point on the Road to the Pacific War – Yasutoshi Teramoto • The Portsmouth Peace – I. V. Lukoianov • Roosevelt and the U.S. Role: Perception Makes Policy – Eugene P. Trani and Donald E. Davis • LEGACIES • Lessons Lessened: The Near-Term Military Legacy of 1904–1905 in Imperial Russia – Bruce W. Menning and John W. Steinberg • The Absence of Portsmouth in an Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Imagination of Peace – Sho Konishi • Political Legacies of the Portsmouth Treaty – Shinji Yokote • CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS • Riding Rough: Portsmouth, Regionalism, and the Birth of Anti-Americanism in Northeast Asia – David Wolff • Economic Engagement: Coping with the Realities of the Globalized World – Vladimir I. Ivanov • The Contemporary Implications of the Russo-Japanese War: A Japanese Perspective – Kazuhiko Togo • Appendix: Summary of Conference Discussions • Notes • Contributors • Index

What People are Saying About This

John Curtis Perry

"A unique analysis, the work of an extraordinary group of international scholars, this book offers fresh and penetrating views of the diplomacy of an important conflict--'World War Zero,' provoked by Russia's first war with Japan, 1904-05."
— John Curtis Perry, Henry Willard Denison Professor of Japanese Diplomatic History, Tufts University

Ian Nish

"The Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905 devined the territorial lay-out in Northeast China for most of the first half of the twentieth century and still casts its shadow over many of the current problems in East Asia. Its legacies can only be explored by culling the archives of the many powers involved in the peace-making, and the editors have assembled a multi-national group of expert contributors for that purpose.”

Editorial Reviews

"Generally speaking, the entire volume is well worth reading. It provides excellent summaries of the major interpretations of its authors. It would be a good companion piece for an undergraduate student together with a general history text. It offers a short summary to allow a motivated reader to go on to the longer monographs on the war and peace. The meaty endnotes to each essay include excellent bibliographies for the interest reader who wishes to know more. I commend Ericson and Hockley for organizing the conference and for providing us with an excellent volume to whet our interest on the important topic. They have brought us an excellent piece of scholarship that will be received with much appreciation of the treaty." —Journal of Japanese Studies

"The conference papers published here contribute important historical and diplomatic insights." —Historical New Hampshire

Grouped under three headings: the diplomatic aspects of the treaty, its legacies, and its contemporary implications. . . The four contributions by Japanese scholars are especially valuable since the materials in their language are not normally accessible to Russian specialists." —Slavic Review

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