Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the AmericansHarvard University Press, 30. juni 2009 - 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, Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities—Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia. |
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Side ix
... port cities—Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, Amster- dam, and ultimately London, where the modern world system took off. Shortly after I had been invited to teach Dutch colonial history and Indonesian history as Erasmus Lecturer at Harvard ...
... port cities—Venice, Genoa, Antwerp, Amster- dam, and ultimately London, where the modern world system took off. Shortly after I had been invited to teach Dutch colonial history and Indonesian history as Erasmus Lecturer at Harvard ...
Side x
... port cities were connected not only by their trading links across the South China Sea but also by the fact that they were affected in one way or another by the global transformations of the late eighteenth century. Different cultural ...
... port cities were connected not only by their trading links across the South China Sea but also by the fact that they were affected in one way or another by the global transformations of the late eighteenth century. Different cultural ...
Side 1
... port city he was introduced to a certain Raphael Hythloday, “who seemed past the flower of his age; his face was tanned, he had a long beard, and his cloak was hanging carelessly about him, so that by his looks and habit I concluded he ...
... port city he was introduced to a certain Raphael Hythloday, “who seemed past the flower of his age; his face was tanned, he had a long beard, and his cloak was hanging carelessly about him, so that by his looks and habit I concluded he ...
Side 2
... towns along the land and sea routes were indeed the places where life was most cosmopolitan, where travelers from far away met to exchange their goods and gossip. Port cities, situated by the estuaries of rivers that reached inland like ...
... towns along the land and sea routes were indeed the places where life was most cosmopolitan, where travelers from far away met to exchange their goods and gossip. Port cities, situated by the estuaries of rivers that reached inland like ...
Side 3
... cities” because no other cit- ies in eighteenth-century Asia were portrayed (and possibly even writ- ten about) as often as these ports, where East and West met in strik- ingly different but also similar ways. But before we embark on ...
... cities” because no other cit- ies in eighteenth-century Asia were portrayed (and possibly even writ- ten about) as often as these ports, where East and West met in strik- ingly different but also similar ways. But before we embark on ...
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2 Managing Trade across Cultures | 32 |
3 Bridging the Divide | 67 |
Notes | 103 |
Bibliography | 115 |
Index | 129 |
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