Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781032050027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 302 str.

Aske Laursen Brock; Guido Van Meersbergen; Edmond Smith

Opis

This book explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information transfer during the early modern period.

Spis treści

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 Guy Tachard S.J.’s Unpublished Relation de Voyage aux Indes, 1690-99  10.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