| Verfasst von: | Ehrlich, Joshua [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | The East India Company and the politics of knowledge |
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| Verf.angabe: | Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau |
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| Verlagsort: | Cambridge ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore |
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| Verlag: | Cambridge University Press |
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| Jahr: | 2023 |
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| Umfang: | xi, 243 Seiten |
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| Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-009-36795-0 |
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| | 1-009-36795-1 |
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| Abstract: | "In this original and deeply researched account, Ehrlich transforms the histories of the East India Company and British India. He reveals that, for much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the pursuit of knowledge played a fundamental role in the Company's politics and ideology"-- |
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| | The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies of orientalism, colonial knowledge, and information with a new approach: the history of ideas of knowledge. He recovers a world of debate among the Company's officials and interlocutors, Indian and European, on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the Company - just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today's politics |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313030393336373935307C7C434F50.jpg?sq=3 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (k)East India Company / (s)Wissensproduktion / (s)Gelehrsamkeit / (z)1770-1857 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ehrlich, Joshua, 1987 - : The East India Company and the politics of knowledge. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023. - 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 243 pages) |
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| Sach-SW: | Asian history |
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| | Asiatische Geschichte |
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| | Colonialism & imperialism |
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| | Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 |
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| | HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia |
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| | HISTORY / Social History |
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| | History of ideas |
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| | Ideengeschichte, Geistesgeschichte |
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| | Kolonialismus und Imperialismus |
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| | Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 |
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| | POL045000 |
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| Geograph. SW: | Indian sub-continent |
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| | Indischer Subkontinent |
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| | United Kingdom, Great Britain |
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| Zeit-SW: | 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.) |
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| | 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.) |
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| | 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) |
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| | c 1600 to c 1700 |
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| | c 1700 to c 1800 |
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| | c 1800 to c 1900 |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1837828962 |
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¬The¬ East India Company and the politics of knowledge / Ehrlich, Joshua [VerfasserIn]; 2023
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