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THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY IN JAPAN, DE
THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY IN JAPAN, DE
SubTitulo: 1549 -1650
Autor: BOXER, CHARLES RALPH
Edição: Carcanet in association with The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Descrição: The Discouveries Comission, Lisbon. The Fundação Oriente, Lisboa. 1993. Enc. ed. de capa dura com sobrecapa ilustrada; XV+ 535 págs.+ 39 estampas extratexto.; 24 cm. "The four hundredth anniversary of the formal introduction of Christianity into Japan with the landing of Francis Xavier at Kagoshima in August, 1549, affords an excuse for the appearence of the present work at this juncture. The period of Japanese history known as the Christian century was decisive for the development of Japan`s relations with the West. But for the introduction, growth, and forcible suppression of militant Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it seems probable that Tokugawa Japan would not have retired into its isolationist shell. This in turn implies that Japan`s overseas expansion in that period would not have proved abortive. (...) " In- Preface to the first edition ( 1951)
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