Prof. Simon Partner, who spent a year of research at the HCTS as a Humboldt Fellow from 2015 to 2016, recently published his book The Merchant's Tale. Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan with Columbia University Press. In a narrative history, it tells the story of an ordinary merchant farmer who settled at the port of Yokohama in 1859. This setting is used as a vantage point over sweeping social transformation and its unwitting agents. Partner, currently Professor of History at Duke University, worked on this book during his time at the HCTS.
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