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The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

Door Adam Clulow

Categorie
Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer
#269979
Titel
The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Auteur
Clulow, Adam
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Columbia University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2014
ISBN10
0231164289
ISBN13
9780231164283
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Columbia Studies in International and Global History.
Samenvatting
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 be... (Lees verder)tween 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.
Pagina's
330
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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