| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations. By Joseph M. Henning. (New York: New York University Press, 2000. xvi, 243 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8147-3605-X.)

Americans have never been of one mind on Japan. At various times, and on occasion simultaneously, the Japanese have been either friends or enemies, westernized Asians or oriental "others," civilized equals or racial inferiors. Joseph M. Henning's first-rate survey of American views of Japan in the late nineteenth century makes clear that American attitudes were very complex, even contradictory, from the very beginning of the relationship. . . .

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