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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... century by London merchants who were keen to exploit the direct sea route from Asia to bring valuable spices to European markets. In 1600 they were granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I, and with it a potentially lucrative ...
... century English overseas trade. From different political and economic points of view, it was either vital to the nation's prosperity or a significant drain upon national wealth. Many took an interest in it.3 Boyle himself owned East ...
... century natural philosophy.10 8 “remembering ourselves to be both Christians and Merchants.”13 However, Boyle's. Robert Boyle's Company life was also shaped by print . The mid - seven- teenth century saw a massive increase in the ...
... century English confessional state, the local people refused to recognize the subtleties of Protestant theology involved in these differences. As he put it, “[we] can never make the Natives understand the differences between Conformists ...
... centuries. Robert Boyle was interested and involved in them all because the Company, and those who sought to either benefit ... century scientific revolution and the foundation of the Royal Society to argue for a conception of scientific ...
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 |