亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)

亚当•克卢洛（Adam Clulow） 澳大利亚蒙纳士大学历史系副教授。日本新潟大学东亚研究专业硕士，美国哥伦比亚大学日本历史专业博士，专门研究近代早期亚洲历史，涉及东亚和东南亚地区的思想文化与商品的跨国流通，特别关注荷兰东印度公司的早期历史及其与亚洲各地区的互动。在《世界历史杂志》《日本文化志丛》等颇具影响力的期刊上发表众多主题的文章。本书是他的第一本著作，荣获杰里·本特利世界史奖（Jerry Bentley Prize）、欧洲扩展与全球互动论坛2015年图书奖（Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction 2015 Book Prize）、澳大利亚历史协会颁发的W. K. 汉考克奖（W. K. Hancock Prize from the Australian Historical Asso...(展开全部)

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 Jap...(展开全部)

During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acc...(展开全部)

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyo...(展开全部)

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyo...(展开全部)

Ronald P. Toby argues that this isolationism was by no means so complete as traditionally supposed. He demonstrates that the Tokugawa shoguns conducted a foreign policy that established the shogunate's legitimacy, preserved Japan's security in an unstable environment, and buttressed her ideological pretensions to centrality in an East Asian order independent of the Chinese worl...(展开全部)

Dutch society's behavioral eccentricities are unveiled in this insider's guide to Holland and its people. For business people and sightseers making a long or brief visit to Holland, Dutch society might be difficult to navigate without this examination of egalitarianism and utilitarianism, organization and trade, and honor and privacy. This eye-opening guide offers insight into ...(展开全部)

The Low Sky: Understanding the Dutch, The book that makes the Netherlands familiar The author, historian Han van der Horst, paints a picture of Dutch society and the Dutch psyche. The first edition (1995) became an immediate bestseller among expatriates in the Netherlands. In this new, seventh edition, completely updated version, Van der Horst once again portrays the weird and ...(展开全部)