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The examples in this book are drawn from different kinds of museum around the world, and include significant controversial and experimental exhibitions; the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian; feminist exhibitions in Scandinavia; the National Museum of Sri Lanka; Victorian art at the Tate; the representation of race at Colonial Williamsburg and of colonialism and identity in Canada.  Free Download The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True Impact by Scott Jeffrey Miller English | July 11th, 2023 | ISBN: 1400242185 | 240 pages | True EPUB | 5.33 MB Easy, practical guidance on how to make the most out of your mentorship journey.  Free Download The Star Trek Cookbook by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel English | September 20, 2022 | ISBN: 1982186283 | 258 pages | PDF | 64 Mb Learn how to make meals that are out of this world with this indispensable guide to the food of the stars! 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Free Download The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009367951 | 256 Pages | PDF | 1 MB The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies of orientalism, colonial knowledge, and information with a new approach: the history of ideas of knowledge. He recovers a world of debate among the Company's officials and interlocutors, Indian and European, on the political uses of knowledge. Not only were these historical actors highly articulate on the subject but their ideas continue to resonate in the present. 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