Indian Ink
Subtitle: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226620411
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Printing, packaging & reprographic industry; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Science; History - General History; Science/Mathematics; Asia - India & South Asia; Earth Sciences - Geography; Europe - Great Britain - General; Science / Geography; Bengal; Bengal (India); Colonization; East India Company; History; India; Political aspects; Printing
Description: Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, this work examines the East India Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire.