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Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World / by Anna Winterbottom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winterbottom, Anna, 1979- Author.
- Series:
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- History, Modern.
- World history.
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Europe--History--1492-.
- Europe.
- Imperialism.
- History of Science.
- Modern History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Local Subjects:
- History of Science.
- Modern History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- History of Britain and Ireland.
- History of Early Modern Europe.
- Imperialism and Colonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links of patronage between cosmopolitan writers and collectors and scholars associated with the Royal Society of London and the universities are investigated. Winterbottom shows how innovative works of scholarship - covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid multi-directional struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The role of non-elite actors including slaves in transferring knowledge and skills between settlements is explored in detail.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Patronage and the Politics of Knowledge, 1660-1720
- 1. Curious Collectors and Infamous Interlopers : Samuel Baron and the EIC settlements in Southeast and East Asia
- 2. Linguistic Landscapes : Early English studies of Malay
- 3. Toleration and Translation : English versions of two Hindu texts from Bengal
- 4. Botanical and Medical Networks : Madras through the collections of two EIC surgeons
- 5. Bio-prospecting and Experimenting : Producing and Using an Historical Relation of Ceylon
- 6. Transportation and Transplantation : Slave Knowledge and Company Plantations.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137380203
- 1137380209
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