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Assistant Professor Robert Hellyer
Japan
B-12 Tribble Hall; 758-3955
e-mail: hellyer@wfu.edu

Education:
B.A. Claremont McKenna College
M.A., Stanford University
Ph.D, Stanford University

Courses Offered:
History 104:  We Are What We Eat: World History Since 1500 through Foods and Beverages
History 109: Asia and the World Since 1500
History 246: Japan to 1800
History 247: Japan since 1800
History 249: Introduction to East Asia
HST 310: Seminar: Japan at War and in Defeat, 1931-1960
History 350: World Economic History: Globalization, Wealth & Poverty, 1500-present.

 

Professional and Research Interests: Foreign relations in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japan, the Pacific World, global and local in the early modern era, the worlds of tea

Selected Publications:
The Missing Pirate and the Pervasive Smuggler: Regional Agency in Coastal Defense, Trade, and Foreign Relations in Nineteenth-Century Japan (2005). International History Review, 37.1, 1-24

Intra-Asian Trade and the Bakumatsu Crisis: Reconsidering Tokugawa Commercial Policies in Late Edo Japan (2005). International Journal of Asian Studies, 2.1, 83-110.

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Sakoku Theme in Japanese Foreign Relations: 1600-2000 (2002). Social Science Japan Journal, 5.2, 255-259.

 

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