World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks by Gunn, Geoffrey C.

World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004358553)

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World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks by Gunn, Geoffrey C.

World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks

$174.00
World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks by Gunn, Geoffrey C.

World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks

$174.00
Format: Hardcover
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In World Trade Systems of the East and West, Geoffrey C. Gunn profiles Nagasaki's historic role in mediating the Japanese bullion trade, especially silver exchanged against Chinese and Vietnamese silk. Founded in 1571 as the terminal port of the Portuguese Macau ships, Nagasaki served as Japan's window to the world over long time and with the East-West trade carried on by the Dutch and, with even more vigor, by the Chinese junk trade. While the final expulsion of the Portuguese in 1646 characteristically defines the "closed" period of early modern Japanese history, the real trade seclusion policy, this work argues, only came into place one century later when the Shogunate firmly grasped the true impact of the bullion trade upon the national economy.

Author: Geoffrey C. Gunn
ISBN-10: 9004358552
ISBN-13: 9789004358553
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2017
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d
By Geoffrey C. Gunn
By Geoffrey C. Gunn
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Geoffrey C. Gunn, Ph.D. is a graduate of Melbourne and Monash universities in Asian history. Emeritus professor of Nagasaki University, he has also published such works as First Globalization: The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), as well as dedicated studies on Vietnam and Macau.

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