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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... seventeenth century 89 A True Relation ( 1624 ) 125 Edward Misselden ( 1623 ) The Circle of Commerce 133 Thomas Mun ... 17 Title page of A Grammar of the Bengal Language ( 1778 ) 209 18 Nathaniel Brassey Halhed in 1771 211 19 Charles ...
... century by London merchants who were keen to exploit the direct sea route from Asia to bring valuable spices to ... Seventeenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press, Chicago); and Adrian Johns (1998) The Nature of the Book: Print ...
... seventeenth- century novelty and concern, the natural philosopher was keen to stress that his involvement with the Company was out of “the desire of knowledge, not profit.”5 The Company's world was one made on paper as well as on land ...
... seventeenth - 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 ...
... seventeenth-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 ...
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 |