Indian ink script and print in the making of the English East India Company
- Author/Creator:
- Ogborn, Miles
- Publication/Creation:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Indian ink script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn
- Related/Included Titles:
- Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Figures --
Abbreviations --
Acknowledgments --
Preface --
1. The Written World --
2. Writing Travels: Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter --
3. Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity, Order, and Authority at Fort St. George --
4. The Discourse of Trade: Print, Politics, and the Company in England --
5. Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley --
6. The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction --
Postscript --
Bibliography --
Index
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- East India Company--History
Printing--Political aspects--India--Bengal--History
Bengal (India)--Colonization--History
England--Commerce--History
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Written World -- 2. Writing Travels: Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter -- 3. Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity, Order, and Authority at Fort St. George -- 4. The Discourse of Trade: Print, Politics, and the Company in England -- 5. Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley -- 6. The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index
- Summary:
- 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 Ink examines 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
- Language:
- English
- Language Note:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- General Note:
- Description based upon print version of record.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936530025002486
- ISBN:
- 1-281-96609-6
9786611966096
0-226-62042-5 - OCLC Number:
- 309861730
1135576778 - Other Identifiers:
- doi: 10.7208/9780226620428
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