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Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions
Masashi Haneda (Ed.)
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Paperback. By drawing comparisons among the Asian port cities where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this book goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. Editor(s): Haneda, Masashi. Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 1F; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 those who conducted business in the port cities, and issues of regulation and control for those who governed them. By drawing comparisons among the Asian port cities where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this volume goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. The authors build on the rich literature relating to cross-cultural interactions between the Dutch and the Japanese in ... Read more
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 those who conducted business in the port cities, and issues of regulation and control for those who governed them. By drawing comparisons among the Asian port cities where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this volume goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. The authors build on the rich literature relating to cross-cultural interactions between the Dutch and the Japanese in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
NUS Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789971694630
SKU
V9789971694630
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Ref
99-15
About Masashi Haneda (Ed.)
Masashi Haneda is a professor of history at the University of Tokyo where he is Director of the Institute of Oriental Culture and also serves as Deputy Director of the Center for Philosophy at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has written a number of books on what is sometimes called the Islamic world ... Read more
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