Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn.
Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn.
Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N954.14031/2
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English
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xxiii, 318 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 p...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Illinois
Date Published
2007.
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"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...
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Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company / Miles Ogborn.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.
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N954.14031/2
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74VK33pMKyZl
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9780226620411 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226620417 (cloth : alk. paper)
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954.14031
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991023765729702626
