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... emperor Jahangir to become the wife of Captain William Hawkins of the East India Company, and two English women, Frances Steele and Mrs. Hudson. Soon after her husband's death on the voyage to England in 1613, Mariam married another East India Company employee, Captain Gabriel Towerson. After a few years...

...Robert Markley Arguably the most influential account of South and Southeast Asia published in Britain before the mid-eighteenth century, Alexander Hamilton's New Account of the East-Indies (1727) has been ignored or marginalized by recent historians of the British East India Company. Hamilton spent...

...Richmond Barbour Focusing on the London East India Company's (EIC) first trading center abroad, the factory in Bantam on Java, this essay explores corporate traumas and divisions of interest in this protoglobal organization that illuminate ongoing volatilities in global capitalism. The factory...

...Timothy Davies This article explores the “private trade” network of British East India Company merchants in one segment of the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world, foregrounding a new perspective on this element of European commerce in early modern Asia. Much recent work on this topic emphasizes...

...Nancy Um This article brings together the trade records of the Dutch and English East India Companies' merchants, chronicles in Arabic, and a published French travel narrative to shed light on an overlooked phenomenon, that of early modern medical diplomacy to Qasimi Yemen during the early...

... in the Indian Ocean . Boulder, CO : Westview . Steensgaard Niels . 1974 . The Asian Trade Revolution of the Seventeenth Century: The East India Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Subrahmanyam Sanjay . 1997 . The Career and Legend...

... History to the Early Twentieth Century.” Archipel , no. 28 : 117 – 48 . Kaislaniemi Samuli . 2009 . “Jurebassos and Linguists: The East India Company and Early Modern English Words for ‘Interpreter.’ ” In Selected Proceedings of the 2008 Symposium on New Approaches in English Historical...

... historical and conceptual framework. Chapter One, "The Far East, The East India Company, and the English Imagina- tion" demonstrates, for example, how the East India Company arose within a relatively sophisticated global economy, where China played an important role. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century...

... . 1991 . VOC: A Bibliography of Publications Relating to the Dutch East India Company, 1602–1800 . Utrecht, Netherlands : HES . [ Lodewycksz Willem ]. 1617 . 't Eerste Boeck. Historie van Indien, waer inne verhaelt is de avonturen die de Hollantse Schepen bejegent zijn … . Amsterdam...

... relevance of his thesis to synchronous events in the East. Did materialist philosophy have a “renaissance” in Mughal India as well as Europe? Moreover, did debates about materialism in one part of the world prompt or influence similar discussions in another? Finally, can we trace vectors of influence...

... , 1860 . —-. `` Humboldt at Home .'' Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art March 1857 . —-. India, China and Japan . New York : G.P. Putnam & Co. , 1855 . —-. `` Japan .'' Box: Lectures of Bayard Taylor . Chester County Historical Society . —-. Letter...

... The critique of auto- biography as a vehicle for assimilation, although contested in studies of contem- porary Asian American literary production, has provided the context in which New's and Kang's texts have been dismissed as travelogues that pander to the desire for portrayals of the exotic East.2...

..., her work complemented the geopolitical project of Orientalism, a racialized and gendered project entailing the construction, justification, and perpetuation of political, social, and economic hierarchies between the East and the West. Alzona was not the first Filipino woman to employ...

... in South America to be over 50,000 tons, versus 31,000 in plantations in Malaya, Ceylon, India, Burma, Java, Borneo, and Saigon and 21,500 for all of Africa. See also Barham and Coomes 14. 44 GENRE ing in the trade. In 1909, Britain was drawn into the Putumayo controversy...

... - 110 . Lo Francis . “ Southey, Shelley and the Orientalist Quest: Geography and Genre .” European Journal of English Studies 6 ( 2002 ): 143 - 58 . Majeed Javed . Ungoverned Imaginings: James Mill’s The History of British India and Orientalism . Oxford : Clarendon Press...

... of Chicago Press . Wood Henry Mrs. . (1861) 1993 . East Lynne . Stroud, UK : Alan Sutton . Citations refer to the 1993 edition . Yuen Karen . 2010 . “Revising the Gothic: The Spiritual Female in ‘The Ghost of a Chance’ and ‘The End of the Dream.’ ” In Mary Cholmondeley...

... narrating the very moment at which relative proximity became more significant than location and literal distance. This is so in two ways. Firstly, a large part of the American motivation for the 'opening' of Japan was the need for coaling stations on the transpacific routes east. Secondly...

... in '90s Yugoslavia, like the Jew in Nazi Germany (or today in the former East Germany), becomes the target. Michael Mann constructs a different though reconcilable explanation of the ethnic violence; he points to the global diffusion of the ideal of 'rule by the people' in an environment...

... sought to boost his king's prestige by flaunt- ing the wealth of the Portuguese east India trade, and Manuel had chosen exotic animals as the principal medium for doing so. The centerpiece of the embassy was of course the famed elephant Hanno, who—recalling Thomas of Cantim- pre's tale of a parrot...