World Trade Systems of the East and West
Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks
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Word Count
80,500 words, Guess
Page Count
322 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34907097M
- ISBN-139789004358553
- OCLC Control Number1001863800
- Library of Congress Control Number2017041331
Classifications
- LCCHF3830.N2G862 2018
Description
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.
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