Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South Asia

by Guido Van Meersbergen and University of Warwick.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004471693
• ISBN13: 9789004471696
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 336 Pages