Payson Jackson Treat (November 12, 1879 – June 15, 1972) was an American Japanologist. He was born in New York City on November 12, 1879,[1] and attended Wesleyan University as an undergraduate. He then attained a master's degree at Columbia.[2] He started teaching at Stanford University in 1905,[1] and was appointed a professor of history there in 1906—the first professorship in Far Eastern history at an American university.[2] Treat received a doctorate at Stanford in 1910,[1] working on the history of the American land system as a student of Max Farrand.[3] In 1921, he was a visiting lecturer at the Imperial University of Tokyo and the University of Hong Kong.[4] He retired in 1945 after teaching at Stanford for 40 years, but remained in Stanford, California, where he died on June 15, 1972. Until his death, Treat maintained an index card file relating the names and children of over 7,000 of his students.[2]
Professor Payson Jackson Treat | |
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.jpg) Sketch of Payson J. Treat in 1921 | |
| Born | November 12, 1879 New York City, United States |
| Died | June 15, 1972 (aged 92) Stanford, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Max Farrand |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History; Japanese studies |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Main interests | History of Japanese foreign relations |
Selected works
edit- Treat, Payson J. (1910). The National Land System, 1785–1820. New York: E. B. Treat & Company.
- ——— (1917). The Early Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Japan, 1853–1865. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
- ——— (1921). Japan and the United States, 1853–1921. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
- ——— (1928). The Far East: A Political and Diplomatic History. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- ——— (1932). Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Japan, 1853–1895. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- ——— (1938). Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Japan, 1895–1905. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Register of the Payson J. Treat Papers, 1855–1973". Online Archive of California. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Payson J. Treat, 92, Stanford historian". The New York Times. June 16, 1972. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
- ^ Swierenga, Robert P. (1977). "Land Speculation and Its Impact on American Economic Growth and Welfare: A Historiographical Review". The Western Historical Quarterly. 8 (3): 283–302: 284. doi:10.2307/966996. JSTOR 966996.
- ^ "Prof. Payson J. Treat". The Daily Courier-Gazette. December 22, 1921.
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