Indian Ink Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company

Name: Indian Ink Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company
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ISBN: 9780226620411

ISBN-10: 0226620417

ISBN-13: 9780226620411

Edition: 2007

Authors: Miles Ogborn

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A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia,Indian Inkexamines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffeehouses, and palaces to investigate the…

Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.13" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



List of Figures


Abbreviations


Acknowledgments


Preface



The Written World



Writing Travels: Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter



Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity Order, and Authority at Fort St. George



The Discourse of Trade: Print, Politics, and the Company in England



Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley



The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction


Postscript


Bibliography


Index