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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455303903321

Autore

Hoàng Anh Tuá̂n

Titolo

Silk for silver [[electronic resource] ] : Dutch-Vietnamese relations, 1637-1700 / / by Hoang Anh Tuan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-282-39694-3

9786612396946

90-474-2169-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

TANAP monographs on the history of the Asian-European interaction, , 1871-6938 ; ; v. 5

Disciplina

959.703

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Netherlands Foreign relations Vietnam

Vietnam Foreign relations Netherlands

Netherlands History 1648-1714

Vietnam History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Part One. The Setting -- Part Two. The Political Relations -- Part Three. The Commercial Relations -- Part Four. Dutch-Vietnamese Interactions -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Against the background of a regional crisis caused by dynastic change in China and the closure of Japan in the middle of the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese kingdom of Tonkin rose to the fore as the major silk producing and exporting region in East Asia. Based on a wealth of so far unused primary sources from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives, this monograph explains how Dutch and Chinese maritime traders played a critical role in Tonkin’s dramatic emergence as a trading power. The author examines the vicissitudes in political relations, the varying trends in the VOC-Tonkin import and export trade, and the Dutch influence on the seventeenth-century Vietnamese feudal society.