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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... eighteenth- 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 ...
... eighteenth century the English East India Company became the territo- rial ruler of a large part of India. Benefiting from the decline of the Mughal empire, and battling with other successor states, the Company was charged with the ...
... eighteenth centuries. Robert Boyle was interested and involved in them all because the Company, and those who sought ... century scientific revolution and the foundation of the Royal Society to argue for a conception of scientific ...
... Eighteenth Century ( Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Press , Baltimore ) ; and Kathleen Wilson ( ed . ) ( 2004 ) A New Imperial History : Culture , Identity and Modernity in Britain and the Empire , 1660–1840 ( Cambridge University Press ...
... eighteenth - century “ read- ing revolution ” in the move from the “ intensive ” reading of a few texts to the ... Eighteenth Centuries ( Stanford University Press , Stanford ) ; David D. Hall ( 1996 ) Cultures of Print : Essays in the ...
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 |