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