| Book Review | Journal of World History, 16.2

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Book Review

Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of Japan. By FREDERIK L. SCHODT. Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 2003. 432 pp. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

The emergence of transnational history in recent years has begun to inspire a renewed interest in the intercultural relationship between Japan and the United States. One of the most recent works that follows this trend is Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan by Christine M. E. Guth (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004). In this book, Guth examines the encounters of Charles Longfellow (son of the famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) with a rapidly modernizing Japan during the early Meiji period by situating his love of Japanese art in the general ideological undercurrents of nineteenth-century tourism and collecting, particularly in the context of Victorian America. Schodt's biographical study of Ranald MacDonald (of Chinook Indian and Scottish origin) would also be best understood within the context of this particular scholarly trend.

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