Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the AmericansHarvard University Press, 31. mars 2008 - 147 sider The eighteenth century witnessed the rise of the China market and the changes that resulted in global consumption patterns, from opium smoking to tea drinking. In a valuable transnational perspective, Leonard Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities. Canton was the port of call for foreign merchants in the Qing empire. Nagasaki was the official port of Tokugawa Japan. Batavia served as the connection site between the Indian Ocean and China seas for ships of the Dutch East India Company. |
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... Batavia's place among her indigenous neighbors and peers.12 Upon the departure of their fleets to Batavia every spring , the yang- hang security merchants of Xiamen ( Amoy ) never failed to send per- sonal letters , accompanied by gifts ...
... Batavia because they provided excellent breeding grounds for teeming colonies of anopheles mosquitoes.19 To give you an impression of what it must have felt like to return to Batavia after several years of absence , let us read the ...
... Batavia Betrayed In November 1752 , Governor - General Jacob Mossel sent to the Heren XVII his " Considerations about the intrinsic state of the Company , " in which he voiced his concerns about the marked decline of the Com- pany's ...
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Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |
Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blussé Begrenset visning - 2008 |