Imperial Archive Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire

Name: Imperial Archive Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire
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ISBN: 9780860916055

ISBN-10: 0860916057

ISBN-13: 9780860916055

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas Richards

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Nineteenth-century Britain could be seen as the first information society in history—for the simple reason that it accumulated knowledge from the far-flung corners of its empire faster than it could easily digest it. The British Empire presented a vast administrative challenge; by meeting that challenge through maps and surveys, censuses and statistics, Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The narratives of the late nineteenth century are full of fantasies about an empire united not by force or civil control but by information.In The Imperial Archive, Thomas Richards analyzes the ways in which the Victorian organization of knowledge was enlisted into…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.48" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Archive and Utopia



Archive and Form



Archive and Entropy



The Archive and Its Double


Notes


Index