Download or read book Opening a Window to the West written by Peter Ennals and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of Kōbe's Foreign Concession, Opening a Window to the West situates Kōbe within the larger pattern of globalization occurring throughout East Asia in the nineteenth century.