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Ethnography and encounter : the Dutch and English in seventeenth-century South Asia

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van Meersbergen, Guido (2021) Ethnography and encounter : the Dutch and English in seventeenth-century South Asia. European Expansion and Indigenous Response, 35 . Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 9789004471696

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Series Name: European Expansion and Indigenous Response
Publisher: Brill
Place of Publication: Leiden and Boston
ISBN: 9789004471696
Official Date: 2021
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2021Published
21 October 2021Available
Volume: 35
Number of Pages: 316
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Grant number: ECF-2016-477
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