本書為任教於美國 Smith College 的 Robert Eskildsen 教授所編著。編者本身是日本史專家，對臺灣史並不熟悉。前些年，因研究日本近代帝國主義，前往日本國會圖書館等處找尋有關明治時期出征臺灣南部土著的資料，無意間發覺若干西方人有關本事件的報告與文獻。稍後，編者利用來臺研究的機會，向本所傳達這項訊息，並表示有意合作共同出版這些西方文獻。
?This book examines the history of a military expedition the Japanese government sent to southern Taiwan in 1874, in the context of Japan’s subordination to Western powers in the unequal treaty system
The publication of Paris marks the first time that the significant body of photographs which Robert Frank made in Paris in the early 1950s have been brought together in a single book. Having left Swit
