03442nam 2200649 a 450 991081899180332120200520144314.01-281-96609-697866119660960-226-62042-510.7208/9780226620428(CKB)1000000000578742(EBL)432271(OCoLC)309861730(SSID)ssj0000178288(PQKBManifestationID)11167386(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178288(PQKBWorkID)10229406(PQKB)11769207(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123101(MiAaPQ)EBC432271(DE-B1597)524463(OCoLC)1135576778(DE-B1597)9780226620428(Au-PeEL)EBL432271(CaPaEBR)ebr10266082(CaONFJC)MIL196609(EXLCZ)99100000000057874220060929d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIndian ink[electronic resource] script and print in the making of the English East India Company /Miles OgbornChicago University of Chicago Press20071 online resource (343 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-62041-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.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 -- IndexA 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 centuryPrintingPolitical aspectsIndiaBengalHistoryBengal (India)ColonizationHistoryEnglandCommerceHistorytrading, trade, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, printing, print making, printer, commercial, 1600s, monopoly, england, britain, british, far east, eastern, empire, power, europe, european, 17th, 18th, century, success, voyage, ship, sea, travel, bengal, writing, written, geography, culture, cultural, commerce, discourse, colonization, colonies, colonial.PrintingPolitical aspectsHistory.954/.14031NQ 9410BVBrvkOgborn Miles503633MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818991803321Indian ink4099187UNINA