The Dutch East India company's trade in Japanese copper, 1645–1736

Glamann, Mag. Art. Kristof

doi:10.1080/03585522.1953.10409899

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“…The decline in re-exports to Europe reflected the decline in copper prices on the European market. 10 The book year 1738/39 was the last year in which Japanese copper was sent to the Nether- lands. Meanwhile, as shown in the appendix, the annual volume of Japanese copper delivered to Asian countries remained high, roughly one million pounds throughout the eighteenth century.…”

Section: -1725: Slowdown In Profits Per Unitmentioning

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Dancing around the Bride: The Inter-Asian Competition for Japanese Copper, 1700–1760

Shimada¹

2003

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Adam Smith, the well-known eighteenth-century economist, investigated a number of important themes regarding the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindbche Compagnie, VOC) as well as its counterpart, the English East India Company. These continue to provide principal topics in the historical study of the VOC. Through a systematic analysis, he came to the conclusion that free trade is more beneficial to the wealth of nations than monopolised trade. In his view, an economy based on the division of production along with competition among market participants was the best precondition for accelerating economic development.

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Section: -1725: Slowdown In Profits Per Unitmentioning

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Dancing around the Bride: The Inter-Asian Competition for Japanese Copper, 1700–1760

Shimada¹

2003

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“…However, both J. Hall (1949) and Kristof Glamann (1953) have shown that in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries vast quantities of Japanese copper were exported year by year for use as coin in China and India (besides being "consumed" in the entrepot city-states of the Indies). The expansion of production in Japan's copper mines was connected with structural changes affecting Japan's own growing needs for cash; with shifts in money use and consumption within the hinterlands of India and China; 12 with the changing structure of inter-Asian trading; with the very organization and profitability of the Dutch East India Company, which mediated a substantial proportion of these flows; 13 and with flows and usages of the precious metals themselves.…”

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Monetary Revolution and Societal Change in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times—A Review Article

Perlin¹

1986

J of Asian Stud

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Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, edited by J. F. Richards, is a courageous attempt to survey late medieval and early modern monetary history on an appropriately global scale, while simultaneously representing the fragmentation of the present state of knowledge on the subject. Asian history has been particularly subject to an a priori compartmentalization that has hindered comparison and prevented appreciation of the elaborate connections and dependencies developing among different regions during this period; Moreover, the various ways in which flows of precious metals have been explained merely confirm this compartmentalization, both by neglecting other, central aspects of monetary history and by ignoring the wider historical questions to which it is inseparably linked. By supplementing the approach to precious metals with a parallel focus on the vigorous trades in less precious monetary media, it becomes possible to rephrase the problem in terms of infrastructural societal conditions in different regions, which in the first place permitted trade flows to take place. In this respect, we need to dissolve the hard frontiers separating the conventional units of discussion and to see international commerce, and a wide range of different regional developments, as part and parcel of an increasingly complex, many-levelled web of interactive stimuli, which now needs to be reconstructed, debated, and researched.

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India’s Oceanic Circulations: Textiles, Crops, Animals, Disease and More

Mukherjee

2022

India in the Indian Ocean World

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The Dutch East India company's trade in Japanese copper, 1645–1736

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Dancing around the Bride: The Inter-Asian Competition for Japanese Copper, 1700–1760

Dancing around the Bride: The Inter-Asian Competition for Japanese Copper, 1700–1760

Monetary Revolution and Societal Change in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times—A Review Article

India’s Oceanic Circulations: Textiles, Crops, Animals, Disease and More

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