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Collecting the world : Hans Sloane and the origins of the British Museum / James Delbourgo

This biography examines the life of Hans Sloane and the 1759 founding of the British Museum. It explores how his encyclopaedic collection was shaped by eighteenth-century imperialism, global scientific enquiry, and the profits of the transatlantic slave trade.
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