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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... Colonial Series : East Indies , China and Japan , 1513–1616 ( Longman , Green , Longman & Roberts , London ) . Citations are to entry numbers . W. N. Sainsbury ( ed . ) ( 1878 ) Calendar of State Papers . Colonial Series : East Indies ...
... colonial discourse and the critics who accuse them of mistaking rhetoric for reality.2 And it is the relationship between power, resistance, and meaning that structures attempts in the wake of the Subal- tern Studies group to ...
... colonial sites , ter- ritories , and networks . The first recognizes that the shape and politics of the growing and ... colonies , territories , and trading zones . Instead , alternative models of “ networks ” or “ webs ” seek to explore ...
... Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World ( University of California Press , Berkeley ) p . 4 . 7. Catherine Hall ( 2002 ) Civilising Subjects : Metropole and Colony in the English Imagina- tion , 1830–1867 ( Polity Press , Cambridge ) ...
... colonial spaces through exploration and mapping, or a variety of administrative schemes of prop- erty ownership ... Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia (University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver). 12. For ...
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 |