meowsoni reviewed The Archive of Empire by Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Great!
4 stars
Early modernists are just built different, the sheer range and scope of the archival work. I understood less the emphasis on particular officials and the way those appeared as the dramatis personnae of the book, and also the overall argument was a little too nimble-footed, but overall this was a really top notch piece of scholarship