Cast in silver : the rise and demise of Kyushu corsairs in a unifying Japan, 1540-1640
Piracy in Japan was transformed both politically and economically between 1550 and 1640, in the period of Japanese territorial unification. With the advent of the silver trade, what had been an independent economic enterprise became a sponsored one. Japanese piracy increased in the sixteenth century...
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University of British Columbia
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61752 |