'Spoils of Many a Distant Land': The Earls of Crawford and the Collecting of Oriental Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century.

The collecting and cultural signification of oriental manuscripts in nineteenth-century Britain are a hitherto under-researched field that is ripe for re-evaluation in the light of postcolonial theory. The Bibliotheca Lindesiana, assembled by the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth earls of Crawford in th...

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Published in:	Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History Vol. 48; no. 6; pp. 1011 - 1048
Main Author:	Hodgson, John R.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2020
Subjects:	Manuscripts Nineteenth century Postcolonial analysis Imperialism Racism
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost