Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ogborn, Miles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company--History.

East India Company.

Printing--Political aspects--India--Bengal--History.

Printing.

Bengal (India)--Colonization--History.

Bengal (India).

England--Commerce--History.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A 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.Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. The Written World

2. Writing Travels: Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter

3. Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity, Order, and Authority at Fort St. George

4. The Discourse of Trade: Print, Politics, and the Company in England

5. Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley

6. The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Postscript

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966096

9781281966094

1281966096

9780226620428

0226620425

OCLC:

309861730