The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625

by Timon Screech

The East India Company, founded in London in 1600, was a spice trading organisation. But its governors soon began to think bigger. After a decade, they started to plan voyages to more fabulous places, notably India and Japan. India had cotton cloth, while Japan had silver, and crucially was cold in winter. England's main export was woollen cloth (which will not sell in hot places), so the Company envisaged adding to its spice-runs, sailings back and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198832036
• ISBN13: 9780198832034
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"