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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... turning point in the regional history of East Asia - as they did worldwide - and that is why I have decided to let ... turned out , the nigh - impossible task of restoring order to his chaotic domain . In Japan we see similar phenomena ...
... turned into islands that now , fifty years later , idyllically covered with lawns , brush , and trees , look like a heavenly gift of nature . My whole youth was engulfed by the stamping and hissing sound of steam engines driving piles ...
... turned , willy - nilly , into a nationalist icon . His heroic and romantic aura was undoubtedly closely related to the turbulent and traumatic times in the mother country . The Netherlands were overrun by French troops in 1795 and subse ...
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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 |