Trading companies and travel knowledge in the early modern world

Trading companies and travel writing: an introduction / Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen and Edmond Smith -- Part One. Managing information -- Mapping travel knowledge: the use of maps on the first Dutch voyages to Asia / Djoeke van Netten -- Writing that travels: the Dutch East India company's paper-based information management / Guido van Meersbergen and Frank Birkenholz -- Written reports and the promotion of trans-oceanic trade in Tuscany and Genoa in the seventeenth century / Giorgio Tosco -- Information and encounter in England's North American colonies, 1585-1650 / Edmond Smith -- Part two: multiple actors and perspectives -- William Hawkins in the Mughal Court, 1608-1611: cultural, social, and affective boundary-crossings / Jyotsna Singh -- Writing the macabre: travel, taxation and the Bengal famine of 1770 / Amrita Sen -- Reading marginalised, non-European agency in EIC-Nepalese encounters: the expeditions of William Kirkpatrick, 1793, and Maulvi Abdul Kadir Khan, 1795 / Sam Ellis -- Part three: company lives -- For which company? Guy Tachard S.J.'s unpublished relation de voyage aux indes,1690-99 / Stefan Halikowski Smith -- 'Passages recollected from memory': remembering the levant company in seventeenth-century merchants' life writing / Eva Johanna Holmberg -- 'Blackened and whispered away my reputation': fashioning a reputation in the late seventeenth-century levant company / Aske Laursen Brock -- 'Unburying' company history: reconstructing European company narratives through digital cemetery archives / Souvik Mukherje.