The redhaired in Japan : Dutch influence on Japanese cartography (1640-1853)

In examining the spread of Dutch cartographical knowledge to Japan, this thesis intends to throw some light on a neglected chapter of the history of the West-European expansion of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The thesis is based on the George H. Beans collection of Japanese maps of the Tok...

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Main Author: Jacobs, Elisabeth Maria
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23891