Reinier H Hesselink: 1 book
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki
World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Nagasaki, on the west coast of the Japanese island of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack on August 9, 1945. Less well known is that the city was founded by Europeans, Jesuit missionaries who arrived in the area in the second half of the 16th century. The...
