ISBN: 9780231164290
Editorial: Columbia
Año de edición: 2016
Edición: 1
N° Paginas: 352
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: 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.CríticasA fascinating reassessment of previously held assumptions about international relations in 17th-century Japan.--The Japan TimesA focused and well-researched book.... It is a welcome addition to literature.--Business History ReviewA most valuable contribution to Japanese political history.--The International Journal of Maritime HistoryA provocative achievement in scholarship and one strongly recommended for devoted instructors of world history.--Education About AsiaA superb analysis of the VOC's changing relationship with Japan's political and mercantile elites.--Low Countries Historical ReviewAn engaging, tightly knit, and timely study of the origins of the Dutch East India Company's experience in Tokugawa Japan.--Journal of Japanese StudiesBoth a gold mine for scholars... and a great model for students who take classes on transnational communication.... An inspiring study.--H-WarClulow provides a superb study of the establishment of the relationship between the Dutch East India Company and the Tokugawa shogunate in the 17th and early 18th centuries... Well-researched and well-written... Highly recommended.--CHOICEClulow's book makes a most valuable and welcome contribution to a fresh understanding of the history of the VOC and the European presence in Early Modern Asia, as well as to the ongoing debate about the characteristics of the global "early modern."--Rezensiert fur geschichte.transnationalCommendable and highly engaging.--History: Review of New BooksBiografía del autorAdam Clulow teaches East Asian history at Monash University.
- Idioma: Inglés
- Autor: Clulow, Adam
- Editorial: Columbia
- N° Paginas: 352
- Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
- Envío: Desde EE.UU.
