Une étude statistique des textes de et sur William G. Beasley,OCLC/WorldCat recense environ 80 ouvrages dans plus de 300 publications, en 8 langues et plus de 11 000 dépôts en bibliothèques[2].
Great Britain and the Opening of Japan, 1834-1858, 1951
Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868, 1955
Historians of China and Japan, 1961
The Modern History of Japan, 1963
The Meiji Restoration, 1972
Modern Japan: Aspects of History, Literature, and Society, 1975
Japanese Imperialism, 1894-1945, 1987
The Rise of Modern Japan, 1989
Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe, 1995
The Japanese Experience: A short history of Japan, 1999
↑ab etcIan Nish et Peter Lowe, « Professor W. G. Beasley, Historian who advanced the study of Japan in British universities »,The Independent,(lire en ligne, consulté le).