News Express: UM professor’s book published by Cambridge University Press
新聞快訊：澳大教授著作獲劍橋大學出版
《The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge》
澳大教授著作獲劍橋大學出版
澳門大學人文學院歷史系助理教授Joshua Ehrlich的著作《The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge》由劍橋大學出版社出版。該著作是作者對三大洲的30多個檔案進行10年研究的成果，揭示了英屬東印度公司如何利用知識來鞏固其商業和政治權力，是關於英屬東印度公司最新的重要研究。
Joshua Ehrlich表示，英屬東印度公司被認為是世界上最強大但也最臭名昭著的公司之一，其幾代支持者認為對知識的追求是公司的核心價值。該著作展示了英屬東印度公司如何引用這種承諾來捍衛其日益緊張的商業和政治權力聯盟。他還通過創新的思想史研究方法，重現公司負責人和對話者之間關於知識政治作用的辯論。這些歷史人物不僅就相關主題表達見解，而且他們的思想至今仍然引起共鳴。Joshua Ehrlich指，知識在公司政治中扮演了重要角色，就如它在當今政治的角色一樣。
這本書獲得不少學者高度評價，認為其内容“重要”、“引人入勝”、“發人深省”、“既雄心勃勃又一絲不苟”。賓夕法尼亞大學榮譽教授Rosane Rocher表示：“Joshua Ehrlich的精彩著作將成為東印度公司、南亞和英帝國歷史學家必讀之作。”有興趣人士可透過劍橋大學出版社線上平台閱讀著作：https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967。
Joshua Ehrlich於2018年加入澳大。他在芝加哥大學獲得歷史學學士學位，並在哈佛大學獲得歷史學碩士學位及博士學位。他的研究領域包括知識史、政治思想史、英國帝國史及南亞和東南亞史。
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UM professor’s book published by Cambridge University Press
Joshua Ehrlich, assistant professor in the Department of History of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities, recently had his book, The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge, published by Cambridge University Press. The book is the product of a decade of research in over 30 archives spanning three continents. It shows how the British East India Company used knowledge to consolidate its commercial and political power, thus constituting the major new study of the company.
According to Ehrlich, the British East India Company is remembered as the world’s most powerful but notorious corporation. However, generations of its advocates have revealed that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the company’s ideology. The book shows how the company cited this commitment in defence of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. Developing a new approach, the history of ideas of knowledge, the author recovers a world of debate among the company’s officials and interlocutors on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. Knowledge was a fixture in the politics of the company, according to Ehrlich, just as it seems to be becoming a fixture in today’s politics.
Advance reviews from leading scholars describe the book as ‘important’, ‘compelling’, ‘thought-provoking’, and ‘as ambitious as it is meticulous’. According to Rosane Rocher, a professor emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, ‘Ehrlich’s wonderful book will be required reading for historians of the East India Company, South Asia, and the British Empire.’ Those who are interested can read the book via Cambridge University Press’s online platform: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967.
Joshua Ehrlich joined UM in 2018. He holds a BA in history from the University of Chicago and an MA and a PhD in history from Harvard University. His research interests include the histories of knowledge, political thought, the British Empire, and South and Southeast Asia.
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