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

Geoffrey C. Gunn

World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 December 2017
Pages
322
ISBN
9789004358553

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

Geoffrey C. Gunn

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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