{"product_id":"indian-ink-miles-ogborn-9780226620411","title":"Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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, \u003ci\u003eIndian Ink \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing 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, coffeehouses, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNavigating the juncture of imperial history and the history of the book, \u003ci\u003eIndian Ink \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire and charts a new understanding of the geography of print culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Ogborn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226620417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226620411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.40w x 1.01d","brand":"Miles Ogborn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086419734783,"sku":"9780226620411","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ef7a1bb8-de1b-4e4f-b013-bcc0bc5b1540.jpg?v=1769094569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indian-ink-miles-ogborn-9780226620411","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}