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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments |
List of Foreign Terms and Their Definitions |
Introduction |
Chapter 1: A World in Flux: Japan and the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |
Chapter 2: Japanese Shuinsen Merchants |
Chapter 3: “Bones of the Earth”: The Role of Silver in Japan’s Foreign Trade, 1600–1668 |
Chapter 4: A Beautiful Island: Dutch Taiwan as a Strategic Link Between Japan and Asia |
Chapter 5: Imports and Exports in Seventeenth-Century Japan |
Conclusion |
Appendix I: Character Index |
Appendix II: Japanese Era Names, 1555–1704 |