Archives and Empire with Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Jan 31, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 5
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Episode description
Historians owe their livelihoods to the archives of historical material spread throughout the world. However, archives were not established as mere repositories of historical memory, but rather as tools of statecraft and empire! We talk with Asheesh Kapur Siddique, (from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about archives and empire, and his path-breaking scholarship into 18th-century history. .
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