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- Book Title
- The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan
- ISBN
- 9781350126039
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan : Gift Giving and Diplomacy
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Subject
- Modern / 18th Century, Asia / Japan, World, Modern / 17th Century
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 15.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 184 Pages
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Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well as exhaustive secondary research conducted in Dutch, English, and Japanese, this new study fills an important gap in our knowledge of European-Japanese relations. It will also be of great interest to anyone studying the history of material culture and cross-cultural relations in a global context.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1350126039
ISBN-13
9781350126039
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Publication Name
Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan : Gift Giving and Diplomacy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 18th Century, Asia / Japan, World, Modern / 17th Century
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Number of Pages
184 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
15.6 Oz
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Laver's strength is storytelling. He makes use of many detailed examples, culled almost exclusively from the seventeenth-century 'dagregisters', to engage the reader., This study of the VOC's gift-giving to authority figures in Japan brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other, Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in an enjoyable entry into the history of trade between the two will find The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy both illuminating and broadly readable., "Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in an enjoyable entry into the history of trade between the two will find The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy both illuminating and broadly readable." -- Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA "This study of the VOC's gift-giving to authority figures in Japan brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other" -- Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art SOAS, University of London, UK, Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in the history of trade will find this book both illuminating, enjoyable, and broadly readable., This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other., "Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in the history of trade will find this book both illuminating, enjoyable, and broadly readable." -- Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA "This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other." -- Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London, UK
Table of Content
List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The VOC and the Rhythm of Life in Early Modern Japan1. Gift Giving and the Early Modern Web of Diplomacy2. The Shogun's Menagerie: Exotic Animals as Gifts3. Objet d'art : Most Exquisite Curiosities of Nature and Art4. Curios, Rarities and European Manufactured Goods5. Butter Diplomacy: Food and Drink as Gifts6. A Tale of Two LanternsConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Dewey Decimal
952.025
Dewey Edition
23
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