Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Meersbergen, Guido Van
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Book ID : 45423
ISBN-10 : 93-6080-426-6 / 9360804266
ISBN-13 : 978-93-6080-426-8 / 9789360804268
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2025
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
23 cm. 334p.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
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. About the Author Guido van Meersbergen, Ph.D. (2015), UCL, is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Global History at the University of Warwick. He has published on the Dutch and English East India Companies, travel writing, and cross-cultural diplomacy in the early modern world.
