Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India CompanyA 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. |
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... find that Boyle's world was also the world of the English East India Company. The Company had been established in the late sixteenth century by London merchants who were keen to exploit the direct sea route from Asia to bring valuable ...
... find places for those who sought his patronage.4 However, mindful perhaps of criticisms of the workings of the stock market, a late seventeenth- century novelty and concern, the natural philosopher was keen to stress that his ...
... find ways of understanding impe- rial power and knowledge that begin from these premises and try to be ade- quate to them . What I want to argue here is that ways forward can be found by bringing together questions raised by the turn ...
... find ways to “ treat metropole and colony in a single analytic field . " This has meant exploring the means by which imperial sites are rendered distinct and different from the metropoli- tan core in terms of what sorts of rights or ...
... find their uses in particular settings : settings that enter into their very constitution and modes of appropriation . At the same time , these textual objects are useful precisely because they move be- tween settings . We need ways ...
Contents
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Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter | 27 |
Accounting for Collectivity Order and Authority at Fort St George | 67 |
Print Politics and the Company in England | 104 |
Print and Prices on Exchange Alley | 157 |
6 The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | 198 |
Postscript | 266 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 305 |
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Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company Miles Ogborn No preview available - 2007 |