Collecting the World
Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9290207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Delbourgo (0000-0002-3037-8085, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Collecting the World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674982789 |
| OpenAlex | W4232685312 |
| Open Library | OL35963705M |
| ISBN | 9780674982789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world
Geography · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · 1660-1753 · biography · British museum · Cabinets of curiosities · England · Great britain · Hans Sloane Sir (1660-1753) · History · London · Museum techniques · New York Times reviewed · Physicians · Sloane, hans, sir
Ganja Matters
Pandemic, Protests and Building Back
Back to the Land
Notes on Heritage and History in Modern China
Displaying the Cultures of Islam at the British Museum
Military Medicine and the Making of Race
Deconstructing Glass and Building up Shards at the Early Royal Society
Commentary
Catalogues for an entropic collection
Introduction
From Western French Guinea to Paris
A ‘monster with human visage
Labor, knowledge, and power
The Importance of Knowledge of Provenance for the Provenance of Knowledge
Food, Thrift, and Experiment in Early Modern England
Reading the museum
The Inuit discovery of Europe? The Orkney Finnmen, preternatural objects and the re-enchantment of early-modern science
The Jamaican airs
Botanizing in the borderlands
The Museum’s Renaissance Revisited
The savage slave mistress
The Holocaust and New World slavery a comparative history
The Power of Books
Edward Bernard’s Chinese map
Among planters and merchants. How the Tikal Lintels became “scientific objects”
Visible Labour? Productive Forces and Imaginaries of Participation in European Insect Studies, ca. 1680–1810
Women, Empire, and Entomology
From Chelsea to Savannah
Reading European Universal Histories in Japan, 1790s–1840s
Kneeling Bishops
An experimental community
Trade, knowledge and networks
A hard nut to crack
Curating the Profane
Revaluation through remobilisation. Restitution as a chance for reappraisal the of anthropological objects
Contact zones
A Curious Artifact
The Science of Shallow Waters
[Un]Muffled Histories
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |