The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire

The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire

by ThomasRichards (Author)

Synopsis

Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 188
Publisher: Verso
Published: 17 Nov 1993

ISBN 10: 0860916057
ISBN 13: 9780860916055