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Cambridge University Press Monopolizing Knowledge: East India Company & Scientific Revolution

Name: Monopolizing Knowledge: East India Company & Scientific Revolution
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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Monopolizing Knowledge examines how the East India Company's monopoly privileges and sovereign powers in British India shaped the development of science in the nineteenth century. Jessica Ratcliff documents the establishment of an ambitious library and museum for Asian arts, sciences and natural history within the Company's London headquarters, funded by taxes extracted from British India yet located thousands of miles from the taxpayers who supported it. This Cambridge University Press publication explores the intricate relationship between corporate power, imperial control and scientific advancement, revealing how the Company's extraordinary privileges enabled it to function as a state actor while accumulating knowledge and resources from colonised territories. The book provides crucial insight into how commercial monopolies influenced the course of scientific institutions and the broader history of knowledge production during Britain's second scientific revolution.

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Monopolizing Knowledge is published by Cambridge University Press as part of the Science in History series, providing scholarly analysis of scientific institutional development.

The book examines how the East India Company's monopoly privileges enabled its functioning as a sovereign state in British India, directly shaping scientific advancement.

Ratcliff documents the establishment of a library-museum dedicated to Asian arts, sciences and natural history within the Company's corporate headquarters in London.

The work explores how taxation from British India funded scientific institutions located thousands of miles away from the territories and populations that supported them.

This Cambridge University Press title investigates the relationship between corporate power, imperial expansion and the growth of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.

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Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1009379496
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Biographies & Histories > Company Histories
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 January 2025
Listed Since: 24 May 2024

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