The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company During the Eighteenth Century

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BRILL, 2006 - 225 sider
In this definitive study of the intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper trade by the Dutch East India Company, the author argues that the trade in this commodity reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the eighteenth century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa Japan was characterized by a labour-intensive 'revolution' which also made a big impact on the local economy.

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Copper exports from Japan 16501800
1
Japanese copper trade
3
The volumes of Japanese copper handled by nonDutch
8
Profits of the VOC from the Japanese copper trade
29
17251760
45
European copper production in a changing world
65
Gross profits per unit from the Japanese copper trade
77
General view of the demand side
85
17001790
96
Demand for copper in Coromandel and Bengal
106
Total gross profits from the Japanese copper trade 17011724
115
The economics of the Japanese copper trade
129
37
161
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Ryuto Shimada obtained his MA in Economics in 1998 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and received his doctorate in History at Leiden University in 2005. He specializes in the economic history of Japan and Asia.

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