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The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected
medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the
environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary
work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and
healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from
the eighteenth century to the contemporary era. The essays explore
theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility,
material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism,
public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers. This
book will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the
fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing
fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.
This interdisciplinary work, the first of two volumes, presents
essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in
different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the ninth
century to the early modern period. Themes include theoretical
explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture,
healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health,
and the health of slaves and migrant workers. Overall, the books
argue that, throughout the period of study, the Indian Ocean has
been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that
may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors
connecting the region. The two volumes are the first to use the
Indian Ocean World as a geographical and conceptual framework for
the study of disease. It will appeal to academics and graduate
students working in the fields of medical and scientific history,
as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global
history.
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a
new interpretation of the development of the English East India
Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections
between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial
settlement in the early modern world. Links of patronage between
cosmopolitan writers and collectors and scholars associated with
the Royal Society of London and the universities are investigated.
Winterbottom shows how innovative works of scholarship - covering
natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and
agriculture - were created amid multi-directional struggles for
supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. The role of
non-elite actors including slaves in transferring knowledge and
skills between settlements is explored in detail.
Elizabeth Gwillim (1763–1807) and her sister Mary Symonds
(1772–1854) produced over two hundred watercolours depicting
birds, fish, flowers, people, and landscapes around Madras (now
Chennai). The sisters’ detailed letters fill four large volumes
in the British Library; their artwork is in the Blacker Wood
Natural History Collection of McGill University Library in Canada
and in the South Asia Collection in Britain. The first book about
their work and lives, Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire
asks what these materials reveal about nature, society, and
environment in early nineteenth-century South India. Gwillim and
Symonds left for India in 1801, following the appointment of
Elizabeth’s husband, Henry Gwillim, to the Supreme Court of
Madras. Their paintings document, on one hand, the rapidly
expanding colonial city of Madras and its population and, on the
other, the natural environment and wildlife of the city.
Gwillim’s paintings of birds are remarkable for their detail,
naturalism, and accuracy. In their studies of natural history,
Gwillim and Symonds relied on the expertise of Indian
bird-catchers, fishermen, physicians, artists, and translators,
contributing to a unique intersection of European and Asian natural
knowledge. The sisters’ extensive correspondence demonstrates how
women shaped networks of trade and scholarship through exchanges of
plants, books, textiles, and foods. In Women, Environment, and
Networks of Empire an interdisciplinary group of scholars use the
paintings and writings of Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds to
explore natural history, the changing environment, colonialism, and
women’s lives at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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