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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 | ||||||
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| 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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| 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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