Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905

Esthus, Raymond A.

ISBN 10: 0822307782 / ISBN 13: 9780822307785

Published by Duke University Press, 1988

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Dustjacket good with some light surface wear and fading, some ruffling to edges, boards good with depressing to top and bottom of spine,internally appears generally clean and good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Double Eagle and Rising Sun: The Russians and Japanese at Portsmouth in 1905
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822307782
• ISBN 13: 9780822307785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

The Russo-Japanese War and the peace conference that followed it at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, marked a turning point affecting not only the history of participants but the future of East Asia and the world.
The 1905 Portsmouth Conference, mediated by President Theodore Roosevelt, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize, brought to an end a war in which Japan won spectacular victories on land and sea. Although the peace settlement fell far short of public expectations in Japan, she gained supremacy in Korea and a sphere of influence in South Manchuria as a consequence of the treaty. Nevertheless, the treaty reflected the military stalemate in Manchuria. Roosevelt wanted a balance of power to emerge from the war, and his hope was realized in the peace process.
Raymond Esthus, drawing on the records of six nations, provides a detailed and panoramic account of the 1905 conference from the perspectives of both the Russians and the Japanese participants, depicting the powerful personalities of Roosevelt and the Russian Sergei Witte, as well as Tsar Nicholas II and the Foreign Minister Komura Jutaro. It is a story of verbal duels, tests of will, and moments of high personal courage. If there was no clear-cut victor at the conference, Roosevelt emerged as a worldwide hero of the cause of peace.