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Author: Anna Winterbottom
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 5.268kg
ISBN: 9781137380197
ISBN 10: 1137380195
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 20 December 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This outstanding book explores the gathering and transfer of useful knowledge between the shifting horizons of the East India Company's Asian `world' and Britain during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries ... . Anna Winterbottom has produced a beautifully written, richly detailed, and well-structured monograph that is required reading for all those with an interest in the East India Company, as well as all students of global history in the early modern period. (H. V. Bowen, Journal of Global History, Vol. 12 (2), July, 2017) Winterbottom's is chronological, exploring the activities of the London-based East India Company in its first century of existence. ... Winterbottom's meticulous research shines through in the facility with which she covers the diversity of topics discussed in the book. ... The references and bibliography, which comprise a third of the book's total length, will undoubtedly prove to be a rich mine of information for future scholars and students of the subject. (John McAleer, Archives of Natural History, Vol. 43 (2), October, 2016)
'With this dazzling work Anna Winterbottom establishes herself as one of the leading historians of science, medicine and scholarship in cross-cultural perspective and points the way forward to global social histories of knowledge. Combining exquisite erudition with remarkable sensitivity to both the violence and contingency of colonial encounters, she transforms our understanding of the early English East India Company's South and East Asian entanglements, leading us beyond company archives out into the worlds of go-betweens and interlopers who trafficked in hybrid knowledge made by the very process of encounter. Through penetrating analysis of natural history, medicine, ethnography, comparative religion, linguistic studies and questions of race and slavery, Winterbottom illuminates the neglected origins of British Orientalism before the eighteenth century. This stunning debut announces a brilliant talent and makes major contributions to the study of science, medicine and scholarship, South and East Asia, and global early modernity.' - James Delbourgo, Rutgers University, USA
Author Information
Anna Winterbottom is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. She is co-editor of The East India Company and the Natural World and has published several journal articles and book chapters on topics related to the history of science and medicine, the Indian Ocean region, and colonial history.
