Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 29 October 2021
- ISBN 9781032050027
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 557 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 Illustrations, black & white; 9 Halftones, black & white 250
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Short description:
This book explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information transfer during the early modern period.
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Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information transfer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members,
employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, processed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowledge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of
information exchange
Table of Contents:
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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