The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire by Thomas Richards

The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire

Thomas Richards

188 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging slow-paced
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Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history—for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the far-flung corners of its empire faster than it could easily digest it. The British Empire presented a...

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