Japan-Netherlands Trade 1600-1800: The Dutch East India Company and Beyond

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-876843-43-4
Verlag: Trans Pacific Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 404 g

In the early modern period, relations between the Netherlands and Japan were founded on trade. The Dutch United East India Company operated in Japan for over 100 years, from 1609 to the early 18th century. The Dutch-Japanese relationship - built sometimes on understanding and at other times on resentment - is recorded in great detail in the trade-related archives of the period. This book closely examines these documents to reveal the changing market conditions of the main commodities exported by the Dutch from Japan at the time: silver, koban (gold), copper, and camphor. This analysis of both Dutch and Japanese perspectives on the trade market forms an intricate picture of the cultural, political, and economic context of trade between the Netherlands and Japan in the early modern period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suzuki, Yasuko

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Industrialisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- One: The Japanese–Dutch Silver Trade, 1609 to 1668
- Two: Copper Trade during the Hirado Era
- Three: The Copper Trade of the Dutch Factory in Nagasaki
- Four: The Koban Trade and the Asian Market
- Five: Camphor Production and Sale
- Six: Japanese Exports in the Early Eighteenth Century
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography for Appendix
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yasuko Suzuki has been Professor in the Faculty of Literature, Hanazono University, since 2002. She specialises in the early modern history of Japan, history of external negotiations and history of the Nagasaki area.