Matthew Perry

Matthew Calbraith Perry (10 April 1794 – 4 Maret 1858) adalah seorang Komodor pada Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat, yang berhasil menyebabkan dibukanya isolasi Jepang terhadap Dunia Barat melalui Konvensi Kanagawa di tahun 1854.

Matthew Perry
Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858), foto tahun 1852.
Pengabdian	Amerika Serikat
Dinas/cabang	Angkatan Laut AS
Lama dinas	1809-1855
Pangkat	Komodor (AS)
Komandan	USS Shark USS Fulton New York Navy Yard USS Mississippi Mosquito Fleet

Bacaan lanjutan

• Perry, Matthew Calbraith. (1856). Narrative of the expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1856. New York : D. Appleton and Company. Didigitalisasi oleh University of Hong Kong Libraries, Digital Initiatives, "China Through Western Eyes."

Lihat pula

• Jepang
• Restorasi Meiji

Referensi

• (Inggris)Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82115-X (cloth) ISBN 0-521-529918-2 (paper)
• (Inggris)Griffis, William Elliot. (1887). Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer. Boston: Cupples and Hurd.
• (Inggris)Hawks, Francis. (1856). Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan Performed in the Years 1852, 1853 and 1854 under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson by order of Congress, 1856; originally published in Senate Executive Documents, No. 34 of 33rd Congress, 2nd Session. [reprinted by London:Trafalgar Square, 2005. ISBN 1-84588-026-9 (paper)]
• (Inggris)Sewall, John S. (1905). The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas. Bangor, Maine: Chas H. Glass & Co. [reprint by Chicago: R.R. Donnelly & Sons, 1995] ISBN 0-548-20912-X

Pranala luar

• A short timeline of Perry's life
• Yomiuri Shimbun: Perry -- 90% name recognition among primary school students in Japan, 2008.
• Perry Visits Japan: A Visual History