The Archive of Empire – Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World - Asheesh Kapur Siddique

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... Zobrazit více