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

Merchant communities have come increasingly into focus as a dynamic area of academic study. This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the i

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.