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Ethnography and encounter : the Dutch and English in seventeenth-century South Asia / Guido van Meersbergen.
Lippincott Library HF483.E6 V44 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Meersbergen, Guido, author.
- Series:
- European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 35.
- European expansion and indigenous response, 1873-8974 ; volume 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie--History--17th century.
- Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.
- East India Company--History--17th century.
- East India Company.
- English.
- History.
- Dutch--Attitudes.
- Dutch.
- South Asians--Social life and customs.
- South Asians.
- Social conditions.
- South Asia--Social conditions.
- South Asia.
- Dutch--Attitudes--History--17th century.
- English--Attitudes--History--17th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 316 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The global operations of the East India Companies were profoundly shaped by European perceptions of foreign lands. Providing a cultural perspective absent from existing economic and institutional histories, Ethnography and Encounter is the first book to systematically explore how Company agents' understandings of and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies informed institutional approaches to trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance. Its fine-grained comparisons of Dutch and English activities in seventeenth-century South Asia show how corporate ethnography was produced, how it underpinned given modes of conduct, and how it illuminates connections across space and time. Ethnography and Encounter identifies deep commonalities between Dutch and English discourses and practices, their indebtedness to pan-European ethnographic traditions, and their centrality to wider histories of European expansion"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Meersbergen, Guido van. Ethnography and encounter
- ISBN:
- 9789004471696
- 9004471693
- OCLC:
- 1256627547
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