Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...

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Author and historian Patrick Garner examines the different periods and styles of ancient Greek pottery and delves into the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few ...