Trading companies and travel knowledge in the early modern world

著者
    • Laursen Brock, Aske
    • Meersbergen, Guido Van
    • Smith, Edmond
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Trading companies and travel knowledge in the early modern world

edited by Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen, and Edmond Smith

(Hakluyt Society studies in the history of travel / series editors Daniel Carey, Joan-Pau Rubiés)

Routledge, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The book is a prestigious new edition to the Hakluyt Society Extra Series Individual essays range from the Levant and South Asia to East Africa and the Americas, and from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century Trading companies have long been seen by historians as institutions central to the rise and development of European empires in the early modern era

目次

1. Trading Companies and Travel Writing: An Introduction Part One: Managing Information 2. Mapping Travel Knowledge: The Use of Maps on the First Dutch Voyages to Asia 3. Writing that Travels: The Dutch East India Company's Paper-Based Information Management 4. Written Reports and the Promotion of Trans-Oceanic Trade in Tuscany and Genoa in the Seventeenth Century 5. Information and Encounter in England's North American Colonies, 1585-1650 Part Two: Multiple Actors and Perspectives 6. William Hawkins in the Mughal Court, 1608-1611: Cultural, Social, and Affective Boundary-Crossings 7. Writing the Macabre: Travel, Taxation and the Bengal Famine of 1770 8. Reading Marginalised, Non-European Agency in EIC-Nepalese Encounters: The Expeditions of William Kirkpatrick, 1793, and Maulvi Abdul Kadir Khan, 1795 Part Three: Company Lives 9. For Which Company? Guy Tachard S.J.'s Unpublished Relation de Voyage aux Indes, 1690-99 10. 'Passages Recollected from Memory': Remembering the Levant Company in Seventeenth-Century Merchants' Life Writing 11. 'Blackened and Whispered Away my Reputation': Fashioning a Reputation in the Late Seventeenth-Century Levant Company 12. 'Unburying' Company History: Reconstructing European Company Narratives through Digital Cemetery Archives

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