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Visible Cities : Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans / Leonard BLUSSE, Leonard Blussé.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures ; 2006Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674028432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950/.3
LOC classification:
  • DS797.32.G836 -- B58 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Three Windows of Opportunity -- 2 Managing Trade across Cultures -- 3 Bridging the Divide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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, Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities-Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674028432

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Three Windows of Opportunity -- 2 Managing Trade across Cultures -- 3 Bridging the Divide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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, Blussé chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in East Asia through three key cities-Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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