The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining
the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to
thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which
it possessed no obvious place and was transformed in the
process.
This study focuses on the company's clashes with Tokugawa Japan
over diplomacy, violence, and sovereignty. In each encounter the
Dutch were forced to retreat, compelled to abandon their claims to
sovereign powers, and to refashion themselves again and again --
from subjects of a fictive king to loyal vassals of the shogun,
from aggressive pirates to meek merchants, and from insistent
defenders of colonial sovereignty to legal subjects of the Tokugawa
state. Within the confines of these conflicts, the terms of the
relationship between the company and the shogun first took shape
and were subsequently set into what would become their permanent
form.
The first book to treat the Dutch East India Company in Japan as
something more than just a commercial organization, " The Company
and the Shogun" presents new perspective on one of the most
important, long-lasting relationships to develop between an Asian
state and a European overseas enterprise.
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