Portuguese Merchants and Missionaries in Feudal Japan, 1543-1640

The relationship between God and Mammon forms a recurring theme in this volume, the third collection of Professor Boxer''s articles to be published by Variorum. The previous two traced the Portuguese expansion through the Indian Ocean to South-East Asia, and in this one he moves on further, to the Far East, to deal with the China-Japan trade, based on the cities of Macao and Nagasaki. Yet there, a...