Trading companies and travel knowledge in the early modern world / edited by Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen, Edmond Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laursen Brock, Aske, editor.

Van Meersbergen, Guido, editor.

Smith, Edmond, editor.

Series:

Hakluyt Society Studies in the History of Travel Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trading companies--History.

Trading companies.

Travel writing--History.

Travel writing.

International trade--History.

International trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

1. Trading companies and travel knowledge: An introduction

PART I 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'spaper-based information management

4. Written reports and the promotion of trans-oceanic tradein Tuscany and Genoa in the seventeenth century

5. Information and encounter in England's North Americancolonies, 1585-1650

PART II 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 Bengalfamine of 1770

8. Reading marginalised, non-European agency in EIC-Nepaleseencounters: The expeditions of William Kirkpatrick, 1793,and Maulvi Abdul Kadir Khan, 1795

PART III Company lives

9. For which company? Guy Tachard S.J.'s unpublished Relation de Voyage aux Indes, 1690-1699

10. 'Passages recollected by memory': Remembering the Levant Company in seventeenth-century merchants' life writing

11. 'Blackened and whispered away my reputation': Fashioninga reputation in the late seventeenth-century Levant Company

12. 'Unburying' company history: Reconstructing European company narratives through digital cemetery archives

13. Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-319557-1

1-003-19557-1

1-000-46355-9

9781003195573

OCLC:

1272993070