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Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, paintings, prints, musical instruments, textiles, ivory sculptures, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Everyday commodities are treated as well; for example, the trans-Pacific trade in contraband mercury, used in silver refinement, is spelled out in detail. Building reverberations between merchant networks, trade goods, and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe.

Material culture --- Artisans --- Artizans --- Craftsmen --- Craftspeople --- Craftspersons --- Skilled labor --- Cottage industries --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- East Asia --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- Commerce --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Maritime Trade Early Modern Trade Early Modern Art East Asian Trade Networks Asian Export Art.

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Industrialization --- History. --- Japan --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- 331.100 --- JP / Japan - Japon --- J4000.60 --- J4300.60 --- J4300.70 --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- History --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Industrialization - Japan - History.

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We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation was subsidized by ordinary people's work and how, at the same time, the changing relationship between state authorities and families shaped the understanding of work and gender. This book is both a fascinating story of the hardships of customs official families in small Swedish towns and an innovative analysis of state formation and its short- and long-term effects.

Women. --- Sex role in the work environment. --- Customs administration --- Women --- Sex role in the work environment --- Industrial sociology --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Sexual harassment --- Work environment --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Finance, Public --- Tariff --- Officials and employees. --- History --- Officials and employees --- Employees --- 1600-1799 --- Sweden. --- Kingdom of Sweden --- Konungariket Sverige --- Schweden --- Shvet︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Suecia --- Suède --- Suwēden --- Sverige --- Svezia --- Szwecja --- Zviedrija --- Zweden --- スウェーデン --- Shvet͡sii͡ --- Social and moral questions --- Christian world view. --- early modern European culture. --- early modern state formation. --- hostility. --- mutual help. --- small-scale market relations. --- social control. --- state administration. --- state servants. --- state service. --- violence. --- women's role.

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States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during the medieval and early modern eras. In this pioneering book, David Stasavage argues that unique advances in political representation allowed certain European states to gain early and advantageous access to credit, but the emergence of an active form of political representation itself depended on two underlying factors: compact geography and a strong mercantile presence. Stasavage shows that active representative assemblies were more likely to be sustained in geographically small polities. These assemblies, dominated by mercantile groups that lent to governments, were in turn more likely to preserve access to credit. Given these conditions, smaller European city-states, such as Genoa and Cologne, had an advantage over larger territorial states, including France and Castile, because mercantile elites structured political institutions in order to effectively monitor public credit. While creditor oversight of public funds became an asset for city-states in need of finance, Stasavage suggests that the long-run implications were more ambiguous. City-states with the best access to credit often had the most closed and oligarchic systems of representation, hindering their ability to accept new economic innovations. This eventually transformed certain city-states from economic dynamos into rentier republics. Exploring the links between representation and debt in medieval and early modern Europe, States of Credit contributes to broad debates about state formation and Europe's economic rise.

History of Europe --- Debts, Public --- Credit --- Middle Ages. --- Dettes publiques --- Crédit --- Moyen Age --- History --- Histoire --- Europe --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Politique et gouvernement --- EARLY MODERN ERAS -- 338.98 --- POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT -- 338.98 --- MIDDLE AGES -- 338.98 --- EUR / Europe - Europa --- 331.161.0 --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden. --- Crédit --- Middle Ages --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Debts, Government --- Government debts --- National debts --- Public debt --- Public debts --- Sovereign debt --- Debt --- Bonds --- Deficit financing --- Borrowing --- Finance --- Money --- Loans --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden --- Politics --- E-books --- Politics and government --- Carolingian Empire. --- Carolingian partition hypothesis. --- Castile. --- Cologne. --- Dutch Republic. --- Europe. --- France. --- Genoa. --- Holland. --- Italy. --- Low Countries. --- Rokkan/Tilly hypothesis. --- Siena. --- absolutism. --- borrowing. --- city-states. --- commitment problems. --- credit. --- debt. --- economic development. --- geographic scale. --- government finance. --- interest rates. --- merchant oligarchy. --- merchants. --- nominal rates. --- political control. --- political representation. --- polities. --- public borrowing. --- public credit. --- public debt. --- public finance. --- rentes sur l'Htel de Ville. --- representative assemblies. --- social conflict. --- soldiers. --- state formation. --- taxation. --- territorial states. --- war. --- Debts, Public - Europe - History --- Credit - Europe - History --- Europe - Politics and government --- Europe - History

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This volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. By examining the demand for copper and the policy on copper procurement in Japan and China as well as the role of Osaka merchant houses, this volume provides a new slant on the “life” of Japanese copper – from production and distribution to consumption. In addition, papers on other significant traded products such as sugar, seafood, and books give us a better understanding of Sino-Japanese trade overall. The latest discussions on this field, which were mostly published in Japanese, have been brought together in this book and made accessible to an English-speaking audience. Contributors include: IMAI Noriko, IWASAKI Yoshinori, LIU Shiuh-Feng, MATSUURA Akira, and Keiko NAGASE-REIMER.

Copper industry and trade --- Metal trade --- History. --- Japan --- China --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- al-Yābān --- Giappone --- Government of Japan --- Iapōnia --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Japam --- Japani --- Japão --- Japon --- Japonia --- Japonsko --- Japonya --- Jih-pen --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Nihon --- Nihon-koku --- Nihonkoku --- Nippon --- Nippon-koku --- Nipponkoku --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Riben --- State of Japan --- Yābān --- Yapan --- Yīpun --- Zhāpān --- Япония --- اليابان --- يابان --- 日本 --- 日本国 --- Commerce --- Economic conditions --- History --- E-books --- J4541.14 --- J4420 --- J4300.60 --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- international trade, economic relations and policy -- Asia -- China --- Japan: Economy and industry -- resource industry --- Japan: Economy and industry -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Jepun --- Yapon --- Yapon Ulus --- I︠A︡pon --- Япон --- I︠A︡pon Uls --- Япон Улс