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Company Curiosities Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874

By: Arthur MacGregor(Author)
397 pages, 100 colour & 60 b/w photos and illustrations
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Company Curiosities
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  • Company Curiosities ISBN: 9781789140033 Hardback Nov 2018 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
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For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers and surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India's vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills.

Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600–1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects – craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments – that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible 20 for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste.

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Arthur Macgregor is a former archaeologist and was Senior Curator at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He is a founding editor of the Journal of the History of Collections and the author of Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn (1985), Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (2007) and Animal Encounters (Reaktion, 2012).

By: Arthur MacGregor(Author)
397 pages, 100 colour & 60 b/w photos and illustrations
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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"Company Curiosities significantly enhances our understanding of colonial collecting in India and the presentation of these collections in Britain."
– Felix Driver, Professor of Human Geography at University of London

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