The Company and the Shogun : : The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan / / Adam Clulow.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; ‹B›Color Illus.: ‹/B›9,, ‹B›Maps: ‹/B›2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Archival sources
- Introduction: Taming the dutch
- I. Diplomacy
- 1. Royal Letters from the Republic
- 2. The Lord of Batavia
- 3. The Shogun's Loyal Vassals
- II. Violence
- 4. The Violent Sea
- 5. Power and Petition
- III. Sovereignty
- 6. Planting the Flag in Asia
- 7. Giving Up the Governor
- Conclusion: The Dutch Experience in Japan
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index