Acknowledgments and Permissions
Parts of this edited volume have previously been published elsewhere and reappear in this work with permission. Natalia Doan’s “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy” in the Journal of Social History 51:1 (2021), pp. 149–179 appears here in slightly modified form as Chapter 1 with permission from Oxford University Press. Manimporok Dotulong’s Open Access article “Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: ‘Ecologising’ the Nineteenth Century Opening of Japan” in Past and Present 257:1 (2022), pp. 280–317 is republished here as Chapter 5. Sho Konishi’s “The Emergence of an International Humanitarian Organization in Japan: The Tokugawa Origins of the Japanese Red Cross” in The American Historical Review 119:4 (2014), pp. 1129–1153 is published in slightly modified form as Chapter 8 with permission from Oxford University Press. Parts of Chapter 9 by Oka are based on her article “Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States,” The Historical Journal 66 (2023), pp. 101–121. The author is thankful to Cambridge University Press for their permission to reprint the article’s contents. Chapter 12 is an abbreviated version of Chapter 2 in Olga V. Solovieva’s book The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (OUP, 2023). We thank Oxford University Press for their permission to reproduce it here. The cover image was provided by Toovey’s Antique & Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers. We would also like to thank Elizabeth and Judith at Bourchier Book Production Services as well as the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Cambridge for providing the index.