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Science in the marketplace
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ISBN: 022615002X 9780226150024 9780226276502 0226276503 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago

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The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around t

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ISBN: 0226620417 9786611966096 1281966096 0226620425 9780226620428 9780226620411 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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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

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Bengal (India) - Colonization - History. --- East India Company - History. --- England - Commerce - History. --- Printing - Political aspects - India - Bengal - History. --- Printing. --- Printing --- South Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Political aspects --- East India Company --- History. --- Bengal (India) --- England --- Colonization --- Commerce --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Graphic arts --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- England and Wales --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Political aspects&delete& --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- trading, trade, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, printing, print making, printer, commercial, 1600s, monopoly, england, britain, british, far east, eastern, empire, power, europe, european, 17th, 18th, century, success, voyage, ship, sea, travel, bengal, writing, written, geography, culture, cultural, commerce, discourse, colonization, colonies, colonial.

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