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Enrique Dupuy de Lôme: sus Estudios sobre el Japón (1895) y el Imperialismo decimonónico / Enrique Dupuy de Lôme: his ‘Estudios sobre el Japón’ (1895) and the 19th-century European imperialism

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This study analyzes the work ‘Estudios sobre el Japon’ (Studies about Japan), written by the Spanish diplomat Enrique Dupuy de Lome in 1895. These three elements (work, author and date) show us interconnections between the United States, Japan and Spain by the end of the 19th century. During this time, imperialism and nation states were taking part in the international context. From the Spanish point of view, these elements constituted a threat to the legitimacy of Spain in the Atlantic and Pacific´s colonies, or as Dupuy argues, a danger. Although our priority is to analyze Estudios sobre el Japon providing a chronology of the development of the different parts of the book, at the end, it is possible to appreciate a link between the results and the Japanese and United States imperialism, and the rise of Japan as a nation state.