The Voyages and Manifesto of William Fergusson, a Surgeon of the East India Company 1731-1739

ISBN-13: 9780367713911 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Derek L. Elliott

Opis

This volume brings to publication for the first time the manuscript of William Fergusson, a Scottish shipʼs surgeon who sailed for the East India Company in the 1730s. Written in 1767, while in retirement, Fergussonʼs diaries are the memories of his youth spent travelling the world during his apprenticeship.

Spis treści

Introduction  The Voyages of William Fergusson  Voyage 1: Passage from Ayr to London, 7 June–16 July 1731  Voyage 2: London to Calcutta, 30 January 1733–12 August 1734  Voyage 3: London to the Malabar Coast, 1 December 1735–30 April 1737  Voyage 4: London to Canton, 6 October 1737–15 July 1739  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Derek L. Elliott is assistant professor of history at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Before moving to the Middle Atlas Mountains, he completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. His research examines different lived experiences of colonialism at the intersection of law and violence within the British imperial world. His projects have been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Shastri Indo–Canadian Institute, and the Smuts Memorial Fund, amongst others. He is currently preparing a monograph on the use of extrajudicial state violence in governing early nineteenth-century South India.