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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... Josiah Child 144 12 13 Stock - jobbers ' London 164 East India House , c . 1711 164 14 John Houghton's Collection , 30 March 1692 174–75 15 John Houghton's Collection , 11 May 1694 177 16 British territorial empire in India 200 17 Title ...
... Josiah Child. This controversial figure, whom Boyle's fellow Royal Society member John Evelyn had judged to be “most sordidly avaricious,” was the target of allegations by the Company's critics of ille- gitimate private interests and ...
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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 |