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

2025/02/28 by Jamie L. Bronstein · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Australian History and Society #Colonialism, slavery, and trade

paper · doi:10.1080/03086534.2025.2470968

Abstract

It is no surprise that Asheesh Kapur Siddique begins his consideration of the structure and importance of imperial archives by invoking networked computer systems and big data. As he shows, before ...

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