Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

(Part of the Columbia Studies in International and Global History Series)

by Adam Clulow

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The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process.

This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0231164297

ISBN13:9780231164290

Release Date:June 2016

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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