Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

by Adam Clulow

Book Overview

The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the process.

This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164297
• ISBN13: 9780231164290
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher