It takes the average reader 3 hours and 6 minutes to read The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver
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Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing legitimacy to the shogunal government and by playing into the shogun's desire to create a worldview centered on a Japanese tributary state. The book reveals how formal and informal gift exchange also created a smooth working relationship between the Dutch and the Japanese bureaucracy, allowing the politically charged issue of foreign trade to proceed relatively uninterrupted for over two centuries. Based mainly on Dutch diaries and official Dutch East India Company records, as well...
The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan by Michael Laver is 184 pages long, and a total of 46,736 words.
This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 15 minutes to read The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan aloud.
The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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