Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789971694630)

Asian port cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the site of intensive cultural contact involving a broad spectrum of participants from across the world. These interactions raised questions of communication for merchants who conducted business in the port cities and of regulation and control for the officials who governed them. By drawing comparisons among the port cities of East, Southeast and South Asia where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this volume goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. The authors draw on the rich literature relating to cross-cultural interactions between the Dutch and the Japanese in Nagasaki in discussing issues that range from architecture, mercantile and artistic communication, business transactions and dispute settlement to family issues, clothing, housing, and social relations associated with food. Their work yields intriguing new interpretations of the Asian maritime world that will interest historians concerned with Europe or Asia during the early modern period, as well as students of material culture.

Author: Haneda Masashi
ISBN-10: 9971694638
ISBN-13: 9789971694630
Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 252
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d