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![Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire by Thomas Richards](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMytIMFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--acae7582f2fd66838b711c06b7c020999444f82b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Imperial%20Archive-%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Fantasy%20of%20Empire.jpg)
188 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860916055
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publication date: 17 November 1993
Description
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 ...
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![Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire by Thomas Richards](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMytIMFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--acae7582f2fd66838b711c06b7c020999444f82b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Imperial%20Archive-%20Knowledge%20and%20the%20Fantasy%20of%20Empire.jpg)
188 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860916055
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso
Publication date: 17 November 1993
Description
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 ...