[PDF.72sn] Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans (The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures)

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 | #2116611 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2008-03-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x.60 x6.48l,.80 | File type: PDF | 148 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An expanded compilation of a series of lectures|By N. Wallach|Leonard Blusse was invited to Harvard to teach a course in Dutch Colonial History for one year. During that year, he presented a series of three lectures in which he traced the development and events surrounding three cities in the South China Sea that were prominent in the 18th and early 19th Century. The three citi|About the Author|Leonard Blussé (Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas) is Professor Emeritus of the History of European–Asian Relations, Leiden University.

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, Leonard Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities. Canton was the port of call for foreign merchants in the Qing empire. Nagasaki was the official port of Tokugawa Japan. Batavia served as the connection site...

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