Wetenschappelijke verhandeling: De circulatie van plantkundige kennis over thee in het dynamische netwerk van de VOC

Anna Bruins

doi:10.5117/DAE2024.007.BRUI

ISSN: 2589-4617
E-ISSN: 2667-2081

Wetenschappelijke verhandeling

De circulatie van plantkundige kennis over thee in het dynamische netwerk van de VOC
By Anna Bruins¹
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Affiliations: ¹ University of Warwick
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Source: De Achttiende Eeuw, Volume 56, Issue 2024, Oct 2024, p. 111 - 129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/DAE2024.007.BRUI
Language: Dutch
- Published online: 01 Oct 2024

Abstract

Abstract:

This article shows how knowledge about tea circulated through the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC’s) information network during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Knowledge about tea was not only an example of the scientific advances Europeans made regarding Asia, it can and should also be seen as a commercial product in itself. The production and circulation of tea knowledge was nourished in considerable part by the efforts of VOC employees, with varying rates of success. In their endeavors, they found themselves often supported, yet occasionally also obstructed, by the VOC. While scientific activity under the VOC has often been described as either deliberate business policy or as an unintended offshoot of commerce, the story of tea serves as a compelling case to argue that the hodgepodge of actors and materials moving through space and time calls for more nuanced historiographical examination of long-distance information networks.

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