Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World
ISBN: 9781003195573
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans> fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members,
employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro> cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl> edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of
information exchange

Aske Laursen Brock is Carlsberg Postdoctoral Fellow at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on the social origins of trading companies and early global capitalism.

Guido van Meersbergen is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Global History at the University of Warwick, UK. His research focuses on early modern diplomacy, travel, ethnography, and the Dutch and English East India Companies.

Edmond Smith is Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. His work focuses on commercial communities and the institutions of early modern global trade.


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