Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World

Anna Winterbottom
Palgrave Macmillan, December 2015, Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series

Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new reading of the English East India Company 1660-1720. It shows how innovative works covering natural history, ethnography, theology, linguistics, medicine, and agriculture - were created amid early modern struggles for supremacy in Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic.

Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World
Volume One: The Medieval and Early Modern Period

Anna Winterbottom, Facil Tesfaye (Eds.) 
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2015, Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

This interdisciplinary work presents essays on disease and medicine in the Indian Ocean World, spanning over a millennium. It is the first work on medical history in the region. Themes include medical theory, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing, diplomacy, and colonialism, public health, slavery, migrant labour, and medicine.