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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures 1560-1640
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The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures 1560-1640 Paperback - 2016

by Hesselink, Reinier H

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McFarland Publishing, 2016. Paperback. New. 286 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches.
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  • Title The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures 1560-1640
  • Author Hesselink, Reinier H
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 300
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland Publishing
  • Date 2016
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0786499613
  • ISBN 9780786499618 / 0786499613
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 7 x 0.7 in (25.15 x 17.78 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Nagasaki-shi (Japan) - History - 16th century, Nagasaki-shi (Japan) - History - 17th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015041702
  • Dewey Decimal Code 952.024

From the publisher

Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The Jesuits had come to convert the Japanese. After baptizing a Japanese lord or daimyo of the area, they established Nagasaki in 1571 to provide the Portuguese a safe harbor in his domain. Profits for the daimyo and the Japanese who converted to Christianity soon followed.

This book is the first comprehensive history in any language of the rise and fall of Christian Nagasaki (1560-1640). The author provides a narrative of the city's early years from both the European and Japanese perspectives.

About the author

Reinier H. Hesselink is the author of Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Diplomacy (2002) and many articles on Japanese and world history in English, Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese journals and other scholarly publications. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.