Collecting artefacts, acquiring empire
This paper uses collections and collecting activity to explore the relationship between Enlightenment thinking and practice in the early-nineteenth century and the Darwinist sciences that underpinned late-nineteenth-century British imperialism. It takes a long-term view on the changing cultural mean...
| Published in: | Journal of the History of Collections |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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| Online Access: | http://jhc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fhi042v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhi042 |