Asian Port Cities, 1600-1800: Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions
National University of Singapore Press, 2009
Paper: 978-9971-69-463-0
Library of Congress Classification DS33.7.A67 2009
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Paper: 978-9971-69-463-0
Library of Congress Classification DS33.7.A67 2009
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 merchants who conducted business in the port cities and of regulation and control for the officials who governed them. By drawing comparisons among the port cities of East, Southeast and South Asia where European East India Companies maintained trading centers, this volume goes beyond national histories to examine cultural interactions on a regional basis. The authors draw on the rich literature relating to cross-cultural interactions between the Dutch and the Japanese in Nagasaki in discussing issues that range from architecture, mercantile and artistic communication, business transactions and dispute settlement to family issues, clothing, housing, and social relations associated with food. Their work yields intriguing new interpretations of the Asian maritime world that will interest historians concerned with Europe or Asia during the early modern period, as well as students of material culture.
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