Early Japanese Trade, Administration and Interactions with the West / / Louis Cullen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Cullen, Louis,
• MitwirkendeR: Katsuta, Shunsuke,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Distinguished Asia Studies Scholars: Collected Writings
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

Throughout his academic career Louis Cullen’s main research interest has been foreign trade - originally that of England, Ireland and France, but from the mid-1990s, his focus turned to Japanese history resulting in his critically acclaimed A history of Japan 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds. Subsequently, he concentrated on the analysis of archival sources and of the problems they pose for the interpretation of Japanese history: papers on some of these themes and their associated statistical dimensions have appeared in Nichibunken’s Japan Review and are republished here together with a collection of other papers including interpreting Tokugawa history and the knowledge and the use of Japanese by the Dutch on Dejima island.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements & Transliteration of Japanese -- Introduction: The Route to Japanese Trade -- Part I: Interactions –Ancient and Modern -- Part II: Statistical Resources of and Interactions with Tokugawa Japan -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index