Dr Guido van Meersbergen
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Global History
Co-director of the Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC)
Office: FAB 3.73 (third floor, Faculty of Arts Building)
Email: g dot van-meersbergen at warwick dot ac dot uk
Office hours: Tuesday 11-12 & Wednesday 11-12 (please book here)
Faculty of Arts Building, 6 University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7EQ
+44(0)24765 22163
Academic Profile
2019-present: Assistant Professor in Early Modern Global History, University of Warwick
2016-2019: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick
2015-2016: Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
2014-2015: Tutor, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Universiteit Leiden
2010-2014: PhD, History, University College London
Research
Teaching
A Global History of Travel: Odyssey to Aeroplane (HI3K2)Link opens in a new window
Go-Betweens: Crossing Borders in the Early Modern WorldLink opens in a new window (HI2B2)
Caravans and Traders: Global Connections, 1200-1500Link opens in a new window (HI2B8)
Europe in the Making 1450-1800 (HI113)Link opens in a new window
Themes & Approaches to the Historical Study of Empire (HI995)Link opens in a new window
Supervision
I welcome postgraduate students interested in the history of diplomacy, travel, trade, empire, and ethnography in the early modern world.
Publications
Books
Ethnography and Encounter: The Dutch and English in Seventeenth-Century South AsiaLink opens in a new window (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022).
Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern WorldLink opens in a new window, co-edited with Aske Laursen Brock and Edmond Smith (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022).
Articles
- '"Intirely the Kings Vassalls": East India Company Gifting Practices and Anglo-Mughal Political Exchange (c. 1670-1720)', Diplomatica 2.2 (2020), 270-290. LinkLink opens in a new window.
- 'Introduction. Gift and Tribute in Early Modern Diplomacy: Afro-Eurasian Perspectives' (with Birgit Tremml-Werner and Lisa Hellman), Diplomatica 2.2 (2020), 185-200. Link.Link opens in a new window (open access)
- 'The Diplomatic Repertoires of the East India Companies in Mughal South Asia, 1608-1717', The Historical Journal 62.4 (2019), 875-898. LinkLink opens in a new window.
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‘Writing East India Company History after the Cultural Turn: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Seventeenth-Century East India Company and Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie’, Journal of Early Modern Cultural StudiesLink opens in a new window 17.3 (2017), 10-36.
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‘‘In goede en vertroude handen’: Communicatie en beleid bij de VOC tijdens de Hollandse Oorlog (1672-1678)’, De Zeventiende Eeuw 27.1 (2011), 80-101.
- ‘De uitgeversstrategie van Jacob van Meurs belicht: De Amsterdamse en ‘Antwerpse’ edities van Johan Nieuhofs Gezantschap (1665-1666), De Zeventiende Eeuw 26.1 (2010), 73-90.
Book chapters
- 'Writing that Travels: The Dutch East India Company's Paper-Based Information Management' (with Frank Birkenholz), in: Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen and Edmond Smith (eds.), Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Abingdon and New York: 2022), 43-70.
- 'Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge: An Introduction' (with Aske Laursen Brock and Edmond Smith), in: Aske Laursen Brock, Guido van Meersbergen and Edmond Smith (eds.), Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Abingdon and New York: 2022), 1-20.
- 'Diplomacy in a Provincial Setting: The East India Companies in Seventeenth-Century Bengal and Orissa', in: Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert (eds.), The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 55-78. Open accessLink opens in a new window.
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'The Merchant-Diplomat in Comparative Perspective: Dutch and other Embassies to the Court of Aurangzeb, 1660-1666’, in Tracey Sowerby and Jan Hennings (eds.), Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800Link opens in a new window (New York: Routledge, 2017), 147-165.
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‘Dutch and English Approaches to Cross-Cultural Trade in Mughal India and the Problem of Trust, circa 1600-1630’, in Cátia Antunes and Amélia Polónia (eds.), Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800Link opens in a new window (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016), 69-87.
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‘Kijken en bekeken worden: Een Nederlandse gezant in Delhi, 1677-1678’, in Lodewijk Wagenaar (ed.), Aan de overkant: Ontmoetingen in Dienst van de VOC en WICLink opens in a new window (1600-1800) (Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2015), 201-216.
Other
'The East India Company's Relations with the VOC and South Asian Powers in the 17th-18th centuries', East India CompanyLink opens in a new window, Adam Matthew (2020).
External Roles
- Council Member of the Hakluyt SocietyLink opens in a new window
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Symposium Coordinator for the Hakluyt Society.