This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the

This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the

This book presents intimate, engaging, and largely untold portraits of Western lives and livelihoods in Japanese and Chinese treaty ports, as well as in the Bri

Sixteenth-century Europe was powered by commerce. Whilst mercantile groups from many areas prospered, those from the Low Countries were particularly successful.

In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclu