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THE COMPANY AND THE SHOGUN
THE DUTCH ENCOUNTER WITH TOKUGAWA JAPAN |
| By: |
Adam Clulow |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£46.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0231535732 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780231535731 |
| Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 January, 2014 |
| Series: |
Columbia Studies in International and Global History |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Columbia University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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