The Imperial Archive
Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire
by Thomas Richards
179 pages· 1993· ISBN 9780860916055
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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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