Peter Ennals is a professor emeritus of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

‘Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.’- Herald Feuss (Pacific Affairs; June 2015)

• IllustrationsTablesAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan2. The Creation of Kōbe's Foreign Concession3. Establishing Municipal Government and Services in the Concession4. Forging an Economy - The Basis for Mercantile Trade5. Finding a Mercantile Staple for Kōbe: The Tea and Silk Trades6. The Morphology of the Settlement and the Development of a Pleasing Townscape7. Life at the End of the World: Forming an Expatriate Society in Kōbe8. Measuring Success in the ConcessionEndnotesGlossaryExplanatory NotesBibliographyArchival SourcesNewspapersPublished SourcesIndex

Peter Ennals is a professor emeritus of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

‘Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.’- Herald Feuss (Pacific Affairs; June 2015)

• IllustrationsTablesAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan2. The Creation of Kōbe's Foreign Concession3. Establishing Municipal Government and Services in the Concession4. Forging an Economy - The Basis for Mercantile Trade5. Finding a Mercantile Staple for Kōbe: The Tea and Silk Trades6. The Morphology of the Settlement and the Development of a Pleasing Townscape7. Life at the End of the World: Forming an Expatriate Society in Kōbe8. Measuring Success in the ConcessionEndnotesGlossaryExplanatory NotesBibliographyArchival SourcesNewspapersPublished SourcesIndex

Peter Ennals is a professor emeritus of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University. He is co-author of Homeplace: The Making of the Canadian Dwelling Over Three Centuries, and has contributed to the Historical Atlas of Canada and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

‘Ennals has written a wonderful history of the Foreign Settlement at Kobe, which appears especially strong in its analysis of spatial developments and patterns of architecture.’- Herald Feuss (Pacific Affairs; June 2015)

• IllustrationsTablesAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Setting the Stage: The Role of Ports in the Encounter between East and West in Japan2. The Creation of Kōbe's Foreign Concession3. Establishing Municipal Government and Services in the Concession4. Forging an Economy - The Basis for Mercantile Trade5. Finding a Mercantile Staple for Kōbe: The Tea and Silk Trades6. The Morphology of the Settlement and the Development of a Pleasing Townscape7. Life at the End of the World: Forming an Expatriate Society in Kōbe8. Measuring Success in the ConcessionEndnotesGlossaryExplanatory NotesBibliographyArchival SourcesNewspapersPublished SourcesIndex