Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution
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In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Indian arts, sciences, and natural history was established. Run by government employees and funded with taxes, India's first national museum was thousands of miles away from the land from which it grew, in the City of London, within the headquarters of the East India Company. Jessica Ratcliff documents how the growth of science at the Company depended upon its sweeping monopoly privileges...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1009379496
ISBN13:9781009379496
Release Date:January 2025
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
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