Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India CompanyUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 nov. 2008 - 288 pages 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. |
Table des matières
1 The Written World | 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 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company Miles Ogborn Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |