Indian ink : script and print in the making of the English East India Company /
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 writ...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.