The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire.

Created: 2025-01-10

Updated: 2025-01-19

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Thomas Richards analyses the ways in which the Victorian organization of knowledge was enlisted into the service of the British Empire.

The [British] narratives of the late nineteenth century are full of fantasies about an empire united not by force but by information. The study of some of these narratives is the subject of this book.(p. 1)

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The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. | OpenLibrary
By: Thomas Richards
Started: 2025-01-10
Amount read: 78 of 179 pages

Progress: 78 pages

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