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Friendly Connections

Name: Friendly Connections
Brand: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
SKU: 9781793623331
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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781793623331

Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century

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Edited by Linda H Chance, Paul B Reagan, Tetsuko Toda, Contributions by Allan W Austin, Thomas W Burkman, Linda H Chance, Cynthia L Daugherty, Donald Davis, Steven Elkinton, Thomas D Hamm
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
Release Date: January 8, 2024
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm
Weight: 600 g
Pages: 372

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Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century discloses the history of relations among members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists. In this book, Japanese and North American experts demonstrate that education, women's rights, interracial equality, politics, disaster relief, reform, and peace efforts have all benefited. Seventeen chapters detail this underappreciated history. Throughout the modern era, these ties, often between women, have transformed efforts for peace, equality, and women's rights in Japan and the United States. With a focus on "women's work for women," and revelations about supportive British Quakers, this book uncovers networks that sustained Japan-America ties for a century and a half.

Linda H. Chance is associate professor of Japanese studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul B. Reagan is an independent scholar and historian of modern Japan and international relations. Tetsuko Toda is a project researcher of Quaker history in Japan at Tsuda University.

This book is so valuable; it moves the central focus of Quaker studies beyond an Anglo-American emphasis, highlights the role of women, and breaks new scholarly ground in a compelling way. The authors and editors are to be congratulated for such fine work. --Ben Pink Dandelion, University of Birmingham This excellent collection of essays gathers an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars from Japan and the United States to explore the partnerships that developed between Philadelphian and Japanese Quakers from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Strongly researched and clearly written, Friendly Connections offers important insights into this special relationship at the same time as it opens the door for further study. --Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University

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