Indian Ink (inbunden)
Fler böcker inom
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
288
Utgivningsdatum
2007-06-01
Upplaga
illustrated ed
Förlag
University of Chicago Press
Illustrationer
22 halftones
Dimensioner
231 x 163 x 26 mm
Vikt
581 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780226620411

Indian Ink

Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company

av Miles Ogborn
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2007-06-01
727
Köp
Spara som favorit
  • Specialorder (osäker tillgång). Skickas från oss inom 11-20 vardagar.
  • Fri frakt över 249 kr för privatkunder i Sverige.
Finns även som
Visa alla 1 format & utgåvor
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 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, Miles Ogborn takes readers into the scriptoria, ships, offices, print shops, coffee houses, and palaces to investigate the forms of writing needed to exert power and extract profit in the mercantile and imperial worlds. Interpreting the making and use of a variety of forms of writing in script and print, Ogborn argues that material and political circumstances always undermined attempts at domination through the power of the written word. Navigating the juncture of imperial history and the history of the book, "Indian Ink" uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire and charts a new understanding of the geography of print culture.
Visa hela texten

Passar bra ihop

  1. Indian Ink
  2. +
  3. The Anxious Generation

De som köpt den här boken har ofta också köpt The Anxious Generation av Jonathan Haidt (inbunden).

Köp båda 2 för 1016 kr

Kundrecensioner

Har du läst boken? Sätt ditt betyg »

Fler böcker av Miles Ogborn

Visa alla böcker av Miles Ogborn »

Recensioner i media

[A] remarkable achievement in cultural nd economic history.--George H. Thompson "Studies in English Literature" By arguing that the interrelationship of geography and writing was essential to networks of trade and the establishment of political domination, Ogborn offers fresh perspective on a literature preoccupied with the Company's involvement in bullion and opium.--Bhavani Raman "Journal of Interdisciplinary History" This is an original and compelling study that reveals through a series of well-chosen case studies how the production, dissenmination, and performance of knowledge was shaped by time and space.--Douglas M. Peers "International History Review" Written in a fluid and enjoyable style, this book is an outstanding addition to the research into knowledge production and practices in the early British Empire. Ogborn's research establishes the relevancy for the reader of applying studies of specific geographies of place to current explorations of the role of print and print culture in the dissemination of knowledge and the consequences and ramifications for the establishment of authority and the spread of political power.--George H. Thompson "Libraries & the Cultural Record"

Övrig information

Miles Ogborn is professor of geography at Queen Mary University of London.

Du kanske gillar