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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 30 September 2026
- ISBN 9781009602174
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Language English 0
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The surprising story of Tokugawa Japan's ambitious attempts to establish direct trade with Spanish America across the Pacific Ocean.
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In 1616, Spanish officials in Acapulco watched nervously as a Japanese galleon arrived uninvited-the third such vessel in a decade. In an important challenge to accepted narratives of isolation and insularity, Joshua Batts reveals the surprising story of Tokugawa Japan's repeated attempts to establish direct trade with Spanish America. Though ultimately unsuccessful, these attempts flip the script about which societies sought to expand the geography of encounter in the early modern world. Early Tokugawa Japan emerges as an assertive polity whose ambitious outreach threatened Spanish prerogative in the Pacific and provoked a guarded response from a global empire. Based on archival sources from Japan, Spain, Italy, and the Vatican City, Batts reconstructs a tale of shipwrecks, political manoeuvring and cultural collision that stretches from Edo to Rome. The unique blend of adventure and foreign encounter redefines our understanding of the opportunities for, and obstacles to, early modern globalization.
'A resounding 'Bravo' to Joshua Batts for an outstanding, meticulously researched, and beautifully written book on early modern relations between Tokugawa Japan and Habsburg Spain. Engaging and original, Batts radically upends our existing understanding of Tokugawa Japan's role in the global race for expansion.' Christina H. Lee, Princeton University
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Initiative: 1. Eastward outreach to 'Southern Barbary'; 2. Coming to terms; Part II. Improvisation: 3. The Daimyo's Gambit; 4. The emperor, the prince, The King, and I; Part III. Divergence: 5. The silent pilgrim; Part IV. Disentanglement: 6. A closed kingdom; 7. Still waters; Conclusion: history's anchors; Glossary of Japanese terms and names; Bibliography; Index.
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