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Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in the history of trade will find this book both illuminating, enjoyable, and broadly readable. * Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA * This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other. * Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London, UK * Laver's strength is storytelling. He makes use of many detailed examples, culled almost exclusively from the seventeenth-century 'dagregisters', to engage the reader. * Monumenta Nipponica *

Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in the history of trade will find this book both illuminating, enjoyable, and broadly readable. * Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA * This study brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other. * Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London, UK *

Michael Laver collects fascinating stories about the political and economic roles played by the performance of gift exchanges between the Dutch East India Company and the Japanese. All those interested in an enjoyable entry into the history of trade between the two will find The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy both illuminating and broadly readable. * Terrance Jackson, Professor of History, Adrian College, Michigan, USA * This study of the VOC's gift-giving to authority figures in Japan brings together scattered and sometimes inaccessible data to position the shogun's realm firmly within the burgeoning field of diplomatic history and present-giving. It will be of use to historians of international encounter, overseas trade, knowledge transfer, and all those who wonder how cultures seek - and so often fail - to put themselves across when encounter the Other * Timon Screech, Professor of the History of Art SOAS, University of London, UK *

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Michael Laver is Department Chair and Associate Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. He is the author of The Sakoku Edicts and the Politics of Tokugawa Hegemony (2011) and Japan’s Economy by Proxy in the Seventeenth Century (2008).

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