The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World - Couverture rigide

Livre 46 sur 47: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Siddique, Asheesh Kapur

 
9780300267716: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300267711 ISBN 13 : 9780300267716
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire

Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.

As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to be regarded as inadequate in governing the non-English people who inhabited the lands over which the British asserted sovereignty. This posed a key problem for imperial officials: What kind of knowledge was required to govern an empire populated by a growing number of culturally different people? Using files, pens, and paper, the British defined the information order of the modern state as they debated answers to this question. In tracing the rise and deployment of archives in early modern British imperial rule, Asheesh Kapur Siddique uncovers the origins of our data-driven present.

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À propos de l?auteur

Asheesh Kapur Siddique is assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a historian of early America, early modern Europe, and the British Empire. He lives in Northampton, MA.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300267711
ISBN 13 
9780300267716
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
256
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