| ID | 158512 |
| Title Proper | Gift and Gunboat |
| Other Title Information | meanings of exchange in the perry expedition |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Fullilove, Courtney |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | If as anthropologists have emphasized, gifts are never free, the freighted quality of their exchange was explicit in the U.S. Japan Expedition of 1853-4 led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the object of which to compel commodity exchange. This essay explores diplomatic gift exchange during the expedition as a theater in which disputes over value were performed. Gift exchange supported licit and illicit commerce, each reflecting varied imaginations of the global: as a patchwork of militarized nation states, a hierarchy of civilizations, an grid of marketplaces, and a zone of common nature. |
| `In' analytical Note | Diplomatic History Vol. 42, No.1; Jan 2018: p.90–108 |
| Journal Source | Diplomatic History Vol: 42 No 1 |
| Key Words | Gift and Gunboat ; Meanings of Exchange ; Perry Expedition |