Indian Ink - Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company

Informationen zum Autor Miles Ogborn is professor of geography at Queen Mary University of London. His books include Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800 and Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company , the latter published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Miles Ogborn, Ogborn Miles
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.06.2007
• EAN: 9780226620411
• ISBN: 978-0-226-62041-1
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith; mersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia della cultura; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, HISTORY / Social History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, India, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Printing, packaging & reprographic industry, C 1600 To C 1700, Industrialisation & Industrial History, C 1700 To C 1800, Industrialisation and industrial history, Printing and reprographic industries