Hybrid knowledge in the early East India Company world
"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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke
Palgrave Macmillan
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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| Schlagworte: |
East India Company
> History
> Royal Society (Great Britain)
> Knowledge, Sociology of
> Learning and scholarship
> Collectors and collecting
> Authors and patrons
> HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
> HISTORY / World
> HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century
> HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century
> SCIENCE / History
> East Asia
> Intellectual life
> Great Britain
> Relations
> Wissenschaft
> Forschung
> Kolonialismus
> Geschichte 1660-1720
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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".. |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 324 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 9781137380197 |