Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution

by Jessica Ratcliff

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In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Asian arts, sciences and natural history was established in the City of London, within the corporate headquarters of the East India Company. Funded with taxes from British India and run by the East India Company, this library-museum was located thousands of miles away from the taxpayers who supported it and the land from which it grew. Jessica Ratcliff documents how the growth of science...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1009379496

ISBN13:9781009379496

Release Date:January 2025

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:300 Pages

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