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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... History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press, Chicago); and Adrian Johns (1998) The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, Chicago). For ...
... history of knowledge - making ( within natural philosophy and beyond ) of understanding the geographies , both lo- cally situated and widely dispersed , of the material practices of writing , printing , and reading . This book argues ...
... history with those of the history of the book to demonstrate how concentrating on the making and movement of writing can draw out geographies of knowledge and power that are both firmly located in particular places and stretched halfway ...
... history of European engagements with the rest of theworld the word nothingnew. through written is There is, how- ever, substantial debate over how that might be done. In the last twenty-five years some of the most highly charged ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |