348:, the tribulations of the maritime trading route between Europe and Asia, a sparkling overview of Brazil during the eighteenth century in the age of gold strikes and frontier expansion, magnificent syntheses of both Dutch and Portuguese colonial history, as well as many pioneering comparative studies of local municipal institutions in Asia, Africa, and South America, race relations, and social mores. Famously in the 1960s at the height of
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Japanese as a prisoner of war and remained in captivity until 1945. After his release, Boxer returned to Japan in February 1946 as a member of the British
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in 1915. While his father's family may have been of
Huguenot origin, the family of his mother, Jane Patterson, hailed from Scotland. Her forebears became successful
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in 1904. On his father's side, he was a descendant of an illustrious
British family that had served in command positions in every British war since the
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and then pump the various
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hundreds of
Christian missionaries and converts and for good measure executed a delegation of anxious envoys sent out from the Portuguese enclave of
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in 1930 for three years as part of an exchange of
Japanese and English officers. He was assigned to the 38th Infantry Regiment based at
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to make it entirely clear to the
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into Japan and China during the sixteenth century, and splendid accounts of the opulence and decline of
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A Portuguese Embassy to Japan (1644-1647). Translated from an Unpublished Portuguese Ms. etc.
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899:In Memoriam Charles Ralph Boxer (1904–2000)
551:Jan Compagnie in Japan, 1660-1817. An Essay
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559:(Martinus Nijhoff, 1948); republished 1968
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