Dr. Edward Owen Teggin

Edward Owen Teggin studied history at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Trinity College, Dublin, and received his doctorate in 2020. Currently affiliated with Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, his research interests include private maritime trade in the early modern Indian Ocean, colonial-imperial migration, and colonial anxiety.

Key publications:

  • E.O. Teggin. (2022). An East India Company Perspective on Eighteenth-Century Persia: Insights from the Papers of Robert Cowan, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen, 15(1), pp. 177-219.
  • E.O. Teggin. (2021). The Presbyterian International and the Case of Robert Cowan: A Study in Robust Action, c. 1710-34, Journal of Historical Network Research, 6(1), pp. 161-90.
  • E.O. Teggin. (2021). Piracy in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf: A View from Bombay, c. 1721-1734, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen, 13(2), pp. 116-50.
  • E.O. Teggin (2021). The Search for “Home” in Empire: Experiences of Colonial and Migrational Anxiety, Postcolonial Text, 16(3), pp. 1-19.

Books by Edward Owen Teggin

Patronage and Profit

The East India Company Career of Sir Robert Cowan in Bombay and the Western Indian Ocean, c. 1719-35

Edward Owen Teggin | Forthcoming

In the early eighteenth century, the Indian Ocean was a dynamic crossroads of commerce, politics, and shifting power. European trading companies, Indigenous rulers and polities, and long-established merchant networks all competed and collaborated across a…









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