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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... profit.”5 The Company's world was one made on paper as well as on land and sea. Boyle's relationships to the Company were often worked out in script through networks of letter writers. Henry Oldenberg, with his correspon- dents all ...
... profit than proselytizing, and the problems of obtaining “vo- cabularies for teaching the Malayan tongue to Merchants and Interpreters” that could be turned to more godly uses.14 Without these word lists there was the danger that the ...
... profit in these mercantile and imperial worlds are revealed through the development and deployment of the forms of writing that were a crucial element of the Company's operation in both Europe and Asia. These range from royal letters in ...
... profit making, and liberation from oppression trans- formed the worlds within which they were constructed.12 These new geographies of early modern empire are, therefore, attentive both to what happened in particular sites and settings ...
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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 |