Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World [electronic resource] / by Anna Winterbottom.

Winterbottom, Anna.
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137380203 978-1-137-38020-3
Yer Numarası
EK/1857
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XII, 324 p. online resource.
Dizi
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, 2635-1641
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Science __ History.
History, Modern.
World history.
Great Britain __ History.
Europe __ History __ 1492-.
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.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)