1st Edition

Early Japanese Trade, Administration and Interactions with the West

By Louis Cullen Copyright 2020
404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

404 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout his academic career Louis Cullen’s main research interest has been foreign trade - originally that of England, Ireland and France, but from the mid-1990s, his focus turned to Japanese history resulting in his critically acclaimed A history of Japan 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds. Subsequently, he concentrated on the analysis of archival sources and of the problems they pose for... Read more
Foreword by Shunsuke Katsuta, Acknowledgements & Transliteration of Japanese, Introduction: The Route to Japanese Trade, Part I: Interactions - Ancient and Modern, Part II: Statistical Resources of and Interactions with Tokugawa Japan, Notes, Glossary, Index

Biography

Louis M. Cullen is professor emeritus of modern Irish history, Trinity College, Dublin, and was a visiting scholar in 2002-3 in the International Research Centre in Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He is the author of A History of Japan 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2003). His main research interest has been in international trade including a major work Anglo-Irish Trade 1660-1800 in 1968 and books on the French brandy trade in 1998 and 2002 (French translations in 2002 and 2006). His work in the last decade in Japanese history has concerned administration, archives and statistics for both populatiom and trade, on which he has published papers in the Japan Review (International Research Centre in Japanese Studies).