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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... relationships to the Company were often worked out in script through networks of letter writers. Henry Oldenberg, with his correspon- dents all across Europe, kept Boyle informed of the shifting rivalries between the Dutch and English ...
... relationships to one another, and the matters that could or could not be discussed and adjudicated upon by them have been used to demonstrate that “[s]olutions to the problem of knowledge are solutions to the problem of social order.”20 ...
... relationships of knowledge and power shaped the encounter between Europe and Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . It explores this complex terrain by examining the activities of the Company from its 21. Shapin , A Social ...
... relationships between imperial power and the written word.1 It is questions of the relationship between writing and the written-about world that have engaged both those who have followed Edward Said in attempting to map out the terrain ...
... relationships to discrete overseas colonies , territories , and trading zones . Instead , alternative models of “ networks ” or “ webs ” seek to explore a different geography that allows a London ) ; and Robert J. C. Young ( 2001 ) ...
Contents
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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 |