Edmond started following the work of Manuel Barcia, The University of Leeds, Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
Edmond started following the work of Nur Sobers Khan, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Edmond started following the journal European Review of History.
Graduate Student, History
Magdalene College
Thesis Title: The Networks of the East India Company, 1600-1625
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William O'Reilly
Sujit Sivasundaram |
About
My research interests focus on mercantile networks in the Early Modern World. By considering how merchants moved across borders – socially, geographically (and now historiographically) – it is possible to see how distinctions between cultural, political, social and national communities were not static. The fluidity revealed by a multi-tiered approach to mercantile relationships raises interesting questions about the function of interpersonal relationships and the role of merchants. A broader interest in how 'global' or 'transnational' history can provide methodological focus for understanding traditionally 'Euro-centric' topics is also a driving factor within my work.
Currently I am conducting research towards my PhD thesis which questions the role of the East India Company in London during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Three interrelated concerns form the core of the project: how did the Company represent a focal point within a network disseminating and controlling knowledge; how did the Company function as a closed, mercantile community; and how did this community interact with, and became part of, broader social-political networks in Stuart London? At the outset this work was to form half of a comparative study with the Dutch East India Company – a project that I hope to return to at a later date.
I am co-convenor of the Cambridge Maritime and Oceanic History Workshop, a role that includes organising our 2012 conference ‘Africa and the Atlantic World, 1450-1850’.
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