{"product_id":"the-dutch-east-india-company-michael-laver-9781350246812","title":"The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBased 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Laver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350246816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350246812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d","brand":"Michael Laver","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995979481343,"sku":"9781350246812","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1385e201-9d35-46e9-98c0-c6dbe127c27e.jpg?v=1683338998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dutch-east-india-company-michael-laver-9781350246812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}