Truths from Morocco: Knowledge Production and Danish-Moroccan Encounters in the Eighteenth Century
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Itinerario: International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction. 2023, 47 (1), 24-39. 10.1017/S0165115323000074Abstract
In the 1750s the Danish kingdom and the Moroccan Empire came into contact, and concluded a bilateral treaty. As part of the accord, a Danish chartered company was established. The company was short-lived and the “special relationship” between the two powers soon withered. A result of this episode was a handful of texts that sought to describe Morocco to a Danish audience—an adventure tale, a captive narrative, an orientalist chorography, and a biography of the emperor—which sought to produce truths about the Danish encounters with Morocco, but also truths about the place and the peoples of Morocco. The article discusses these texts, where they originated, to whom they circulated, and what they had to tell about Morocco.