Silk for Silver

Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, 1637-1700

von Hoang Anh Tuan

298 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Against the background of a regional crisis caused by dynastic change in China and the closure of Japan in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin rose to the fore as the major silk producing and exporting region in East Asia.Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives, this monograph explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin's dramatic emergence as a trading power. The author examines the vicissitudes in political relations, the varying trends in the VOC-Tonkin import and export trade, and the Dutch influence on the seventeenth-century Vietnamese feudal society.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Asiatische Geschichte
• ISBN: 9789004156012
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.09.2007
• Größe: 245 x 168 mm
• Verlag: Brill