Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World
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Full Title

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World
Author(s)

Anna Winterbottom
Edition
ISBN

9781137380203, 9781137380197, 9781349563180
Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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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