Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)

1. Trading Companies and Travel Writing: An Introduction Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen and Edmond Smith Part One: Managing Information 2. Mapping Travel Knowledge: The Use of Maps on the First Dutch Voyages to Asia Djoeke van Netten 3. Writing that Travels: The Dutch East India Company’s Paper-Based Information Management Guido van Meersbergen and Frank Birkenholz 4. Written Reports and the Promotion of Trans-Oceanic Trade in Tuscany and Genoa in the Seventeenth Century Giorgio Tosco 5. Information and Encounter in England’s North American Colonies, 1585-1650 Edmond Smith Part Two: Multiple Actors and Perspectives 6. William Hawkins in the Mughal Court, 1608-1611: Cultural, Social, and Affective Boundary-Crossings Jyotsna Singh 7. Writing the Macabre: Travel, Taxation and the Bengal Famine of 1770 Amrita Sen 8. Reading Marginalised, Non-European Agency in EIC-Nepalese Encounters: The Expeditions of William Kirkpatrick, 1793, and Maulvi Abdul Kadir Khan, 1795 Sam Ellis Part Three: Company Lives 9. For Which Company? Guy Tachard S.J.’s Unpublished Relation de Voyage aux Indes, 1690-99 Stefan Halikowski Smith 10. ‘Passages Recollected from Memory’: Remembering the Levant Company in Seventeenth-Century Merchants’ Life Writing Eva Johanna Holmberg 11. ‘Blackened and Whispered Away my Reputation’: Fashioning a Reputation in the Late Seventeenth-Century Levant Company Aske Laursen Brock 12. ‘Unburying’ Company History: Reconstructing European Company Narratives through Digital Cemetery Archives Souvik Mukherjee Afterword Nandini Das