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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... benefits of the India trade.16 Money was an issue in other ways too. Boyle could hope to bankroll the printing project only when he was certain that his Irish affairs were in good shape after 1688. Other, similar publishing schemes were ...
... benefit from it or to challenge it, in Europe or in Asia, had to interest and involve themselves in these modes of writing and in their potentially powerful and far-reaching effects. Robert Boyle's life and work signified then on ...
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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 |