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Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution

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By E Resource Library Posted on Jun 3, 2025

In Category - Academic Reading Materials, History

Authors: Jessica Ratcliff ISBN Number: 978-1009379496 Published By: Cambridge University Press In Year: 2025

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In the nineteenth century, an ambitious new library and museum for Asian arts, sciences and natural history was established in the City of London, within the corporate headquarters of the East India Company. Funded with taxes from British India and run by the East India Company, this library-museum was located thousands of miles away from the taxpayers who supported it and the land from which it grew. Jessica Ratcliff documents how the growth of science at the Company depended upon its sweeping monopoly privileges and its ability to act as a sovereign state in British India. She explores how 'Company science' became part of the cultural fabric of science in Britain and examines how it fed into Britain's dominance of science production within its empire, as well as Britain's rising preeminence on the scientific world stage. This title is part of the Flip it Open program and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.