LEADER 03049nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910453882203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96609-6 010 $a9786611966096 010 $a0-226-62042-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226620428 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578742 035 $a(EBL)432271 035 $a(OCoLC)309861730 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000178288 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167386 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000178288 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10229406 035 $a(PQKB)11769207 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432271 035 $a(DE-B1597)524463 035 $a(OCoLC)1135576778 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226620428 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432271 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266082 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196609 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578742 100 $a20060929d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIndian ink$b[electronic resource] $escript and print in the making of the English East India Company /$fMiles Ogborn 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-62041-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Figures -- $tAbbreviations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Written World -- $t2. Writing Travels: Royal Letters and the Mercantile Encounter -- $t3. Streynsham Master's Office: Accounting for Collectivity, Order, and Authority at Fort St. George -- $t4. The Discourse of Trade: Print, Politics, and the Company in England -- $t5. Stock Jobbing: Print and Prices on Exchange Alley -- $t6. The Work of Empire in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction -- $tPostscript -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA 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 606 $aPrinting$xPolitical aspects$zIndia$zBengal$xHistory 607 $aBengal (India)$xColonization$xHistory 607 $aEngland$xCommerce$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPrinting$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 676 $a954/.14031 700 $aOgborn$b Miles$0503633 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453882203321 996 $aIndian ink$92262184 997 $aUNINA