Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Edmond Smith editor Aske Laursen Brock editor Guido van Meersbergen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:31st May '23

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Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information transfer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members,
employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, processed, 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 knowledge 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

ISBN: 9781032052922

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 520g

302 pages