The Dutch East India Company In Early Modern Japan

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350126053

Get Book

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver Pdf

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350126053

Get Book

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver Pdf

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.

Author : Michael Laver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Colonial companies
ISBN : 1350126063

Get Book

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver Pdf

"Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context."--

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231535731

Get Book

The Company and the Shogun by Adam Clulow Pdf

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process. This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent form. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as something more than just a commercial organization, The Company and the Shogun presents new perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise.

Author : Yasuko Suzuki
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Japan
ISBN : 1920901515

Get Book

Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800 by Yasuko Suzuki Pdf

In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan for over 100 years, from 1609 to the early 18th century. The Dutch-Japanese relationship - built sometimes on understanding and at other times on resentment - is recorded in great detail in the trade-related archives of the period. This book closely examines these documents to reveal the changing market conditions of the main commodities exported by the Dutch from Japan at the time: silver, koban (gold), copper, and camphor. This analysis of both Dutch and Japanese perspectives on the trade market forms an intricate picture of the cultural, political, and economic context of trade between the Netherlands and Japan in the early modern period. *** "...many useful tables and charts in this book, which economic historians of Japan and Asian trade networks will be able to use in the future." - Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 39:2, 2013

Author : Adam Clulow,Tristan Mostert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462983291

Get Book

The Dutch and English East India Companies by Adam Clulow,Tristan Mostert Pdf

A ground-breaking collection of essays that explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their interactions with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers and brokers.

Author : Ryūto Shimada
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004150928

Get Book

The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company During the Eighteenth Century by Ryūto Shimada Pdf

In this definitive study of the intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper trade by the Dutch East India Company, the author argues that the trade in this commodity reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the eighteenth century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa Japan was characterized by a labour-intensive 'revolution' which also made a big impact on the local economy.

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231164283

Get Book

The Company and the Shogun by Adam Clulow Pdf

The Dutch East India Company was a unique, hybrid organization acting as both company and state, aggressively intervening in Asian political matters in which it had no place. This study focuses on the company’s clashes with Tokugawa Japan in the seventeenth century, particularly in the areas of diplomacy, sovereignty, and violence. In each encounter, the Dutch were forced to abandon claims to sovereign powers and refashion themselves—from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun, from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent defenders of colonial rule to legal subjects of the Tokugawa state. The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company as more than a commercial enterprise, this text offers unprecedented perspective on one of the most important, long-lasting unions between an Asian state and a European overseas enterprise and the surprisingly limited influence of Europeans operating in early-modern Asia.

Author : Wil O. Dijk
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9971693046

Get Book

Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680 by Wil O. Dijk Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM contains Appendices.

Author : Ryuto Shimada
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789047417583

Get Book

The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century by Ryuto Shimada Pdf

In this definitive study of the intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper trade by the Dutch East India Company, the author argues that the trade in this commodity reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the eighteenth century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa Japan was characterized by a labour-intensive 'revolution' which also made a big impact on the local economy.

Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9048533384

Get Book

DUTCH AND ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANIES by Adam Clulow Pdf

Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000280913

Get Book

Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Pdf

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period in Japanese history, ranging from the unification of warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early seventeenth century to the overthrow of the shogunate just after the opening of Japan by the West in the mid- nineteenth century. Through close examination of primary sources from "The Great Peace," this fascinating textbook offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era: its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more, demonstrating what historians can uncover from the words of ordinary people. New features include: • An expanded section on religion, morality and ethics; • A new selection of maps and visual documents; • Sources from government documents and household records to diaries and personal correspondence, translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship; • Updated references for student projects and research assignments. The first edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan was the winner of the 2013 Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Curricular Materials. This fully revised textbook will prove a comprehensive resource for teachers and students of East Asian Studies, history, culture, and anthropology.

Author : William E. Deal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195331264

Get Book

Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan by William E. Deal Pdf

This book is an introduction the Japanese history, culture, and society from 1185 - the beginning of the Kamakura period - through the end of the Edo period in 1868.

Author : Zoltán Biedermann,Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108415507

Get Book

Global Gifts by Zoltán Biedermann,Anne Gerritsen,Giorgio Riello Pdf

Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.

Author : Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313392016

Get Book

Voices of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Ph.D. Pdf

Based on fresh translations of historical documents, this volume offers a revealing look at Japan during the time of the Tokugawa shoguns from 1600–1868, focusing on the day-to-day lives of both the rich and powerful and ordinary citizens. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the warring states under Tokugawa Ieyasu in the early 17th century to the overthrow of the shogunate just prior to the mid-19th century opening of Japan by the West. Through close examinations of sources from a time known as "The Great Peace," this fascinating volume offers fresh insights into the Tokugawa era—its political institutions, rigid class hierarchy, artistic and material culture, religious life, and more. Sources come from all levels of Japanese society, everything from government documents and household records to personal correspondence and diaries, all carefully translated and examined in light of the latest scholarship.