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This Guy SuckedHenry Dundas with Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique (Patreon Preview)Want to hear the rest of this episode? Hear the full conversation only on PatreonClaire and Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique attempt to answer an age-old question: what’s Scotland’s whole deal? GuestOur guest Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His book The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World is available here. Follow him on Twitter @Asheeshksi and on Bluesky asheeshksi.Sensitive Theme...2025-04-1009 min
In Theory: The JHI Blog PodcastThe Archive of Empire: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Asheesh Kapur SiddiqueIn this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Asheesh Kapur Siddique, assistant professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, about his recent book, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale University Press, 2024).
Siddique examines how early modern British administrators ushered in a new kind of information state and draws together how successive early modern rulers in Britain transformed the collection, preservation, and use of information as they expanded their influence and rule over South Asia and the Americas. Through an analysis of the forms of knowledge encou...2025-04-091h 01
New Books in Intellectual HistoryAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books with Miranda MelcherAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in World AffairsAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in Economic and Business HistoryAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in British StudiesAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in HistoryAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
New Books in Early Modern HistoryAsheesh Kapur Siddique, "The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World" (Yale UP, 2024)Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of subjects and aliens in imperial spaces with norms of good governance developed in London. Officials derived these norms by studying the histories of government contained in the official records of both the state and corporations and located in repositories known as archives.As the empire expanded in both the Americas and India, however, this system of political knowledge came to...2025-02-1956 min
The American VandalFake Work, Fucking Models, & The Archive of EmpireArchives, physical and digital, are suffering from austerity, enshittification, and censorship. In this episode scholars discuss the ambivalent impacts of digitization, what information matters in the data economy [8:30], an analogy involving European colonialism [23:00], the competition to document between corporations and universities [46:00], the duty to tell the truth freely [73:30], preserving the counternarratives to empire [81:00], and managing an archive through Orbanization [95:30].
Cast (in order of appearance): Laura Heffernan, Rachel Sagnar Buurma, Matt Seybold, Kelly Grotke, Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Leigh Claire La Berge, Crystal Sanders, Jared Loggins, Andrew Douglas, Timothy Barber
Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective
Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio
For more about this...2024-12-232h 00
American Campus PodcastThe Trustees with Asheesh SiddiqueAsheesh Siddique discusses the colonial creation of college trustee boards and explains how trustees govern our institutions today.Asheesh Siddique. 2024. The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300267716/the-archive-of-empire/ Asheesh Siddique. 2021, May 19. Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/campus-cancel-culture-university-boards What are Universities for? 2024-2025 Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series. University of Massachusetts–Amherst. https://websites.umass.edu/feinberg/ Elizabeth Tandy Shermer. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in Student Debt...2024-12-0528 min
Yeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts DegreeEpisode 46: Higher Ed Amid Protests with Dr. Asheesh Kapur SiddiqueYeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts Degree is a show that takes a deep look at the humanities and higher education more generally. Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and education as a personal and public good.
Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is back on the show today! Asheesh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an historian of early America, early modern Europe, and the British empire whose resear...2024-10-0252 minThe American VandalStrategic Presentism & Resistance HistoryWhat's the difference? The episode opens with defenses of presentism by two literary critics and a reception history of "The Gilded Age" [6:30] before turning to a critique of resistance history from within the discipline [12:30], a response from a prominent historian [44:30], a consideration of the standpoint of resistance history [67:30], and why aren't there more literary critics on MSNBC? [75:30]
Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Jeffrey Insko, Anna Kornbluh, Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Walter Johnson, Astra Taylor
Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective
For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/ResistanceHistory, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter at TheAmericanVandal...2024-09-231h 26The American VandalThe Age of InsecurityA new season inspired by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's 150-year-old novel, "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today," launches with an introduction to Colonel Sellers; a discussion of Astra Taylor's "The Age of Insecurity" (2023) [10:00]; questions about the discipline of history in the contemporary moment [28:00]; and Walter Johnson reflecting on resistance and his 20-year-old essay "On Agency" [41:00].
Cast (in order of appearance): Matt Seybold, Astra Taylor, Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Walter Johnson
Soundtrack: DownRiver Collective
Narration: Nathan Osgood & SNR Audio
For more about this episode, including a complete bibliography, please visit MarkTwainStudies.com/AgeOfInsecurity, or subscribe to Matt Seybold's newsletter...2024-09-091h 18
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in History, EuropeThe Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World by Asheesh Kapur SiddiquePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794515to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
Author: Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Narrator: Keval Shah
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Europe
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How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of...2024-08-279h 50
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in History, EuropeThe Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World by Asheesh Kapur SiddiquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World Author: Asheesh Kapur Siddique Narrator: Keval Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct...2024-08-2730 min
Explore New Full Audiobooks in History, AsiaThe Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World by Asheesh Kapur SiddiquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World Author: Asheesh Kapur Siddique Narrator: Keval Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct...2024-08-2730 minExplore New Full Audiobooks in History, AsiaThe Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World by Asheesh Kapur SiddiquePlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794515to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World
Author: Asheesh Kapur Siddique
Narrator: Keval Shah
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Asia
Publisher's Summary:
How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information about the conduct of...2024-08-279h 50
Listen to New Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World by Asheesh Kapur SiddiquePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794515 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World Author: Asheesh Kapur Siddique Narrator: Keval Shah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 50 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: How modern data-driven government originated in the creation and use of administrative archives in the British Empire Over the span of two hundred years, Great Britain established, governed, lost, and reconstructed an empire that embraced three continents and two oceanic worlds. The British ruled this empire by correlating incoming information...2024-08-2730 minYeah, I Got a F#%*ing Job With a Liberal Arts DegreeEpisode 21: Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique: Changing the Narrative on Research and the HumanitiesWelcome back to Yeah, I Got an F#%*ing Job with a Liberal Arts Degree.
Join Cal Poly Humboldt Dean Jeff Crane as he interviews a range of guests about the value of the liberal arts and the fight for its survival.
Dr. Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an historian of early America, early modern Europe, and the British empire whose research and pedagogy explores the role of collecting, managing, and using knowledge to the history of state formation and governance. He received his P...2024-03-191h 14
The End of SportEpisode 129: Higher Ed 'Crisis' with Asheesh Kapur Siddique and Joe DardaAsheesh Kapur Siddique is Assistant Professor of History at UMASS Amherst where he studies the British Empire between the 17th and Early 19th centuries. He is the author of the manuscript The Experience of the Archive: Knowledge and the Making of the Early Modern British Empire (currently under contract with Yale University Press). His public-facing work has appeared in outlets such as The Daily Beast, Inside Higher Ed,and Teen Vogue.
Joe Darda is Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University where he studies post-1945 American literature, culture and politics. He is the author of three books on the...2024-02-291h 38
Revolution 250 PodcastArchives and Empire with Asheesh Kapur SiddiqueHistorians owe their livelihoods to the archives of historical material spread throughout the world. However, archives were not established as mere repositories of historical memory, but rather as tools of statecraft and empire! We talk with Asheesh Kapur Siddique, (from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, about archives and empire, and his path-breaking scholarship into 18th-century history. .Tell us what you think! Send us a text message!2023-01-3140 min
The American VandalA Hedge Fund with A Drone Fleet: EdWork in 2022 with Annie McClanahan & Asheesh Kapur Siddique"The World's Work" begins with a discussion of student debt, faculty deskilling, outsourcing, adjunctification, EdTech, and the financialization of U.S. higher education.
Special theme music: "Work Song" by Dan Reeder
For more information, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/EdWork2022-01-311h 07The End of SportEpisode 82: Higher Ed is Imploding! with Asheesh Kapur SiddiqueIn this episode, Johanna and Nathan are joined by historian Asheesh Kapur Siddique to issue blistering critiques about how universities are full-fledged corporations whose number 1 aim is to exploit the labor of graduate students, all faculty (not just contingent ones), and athletic workers—as well as students’ loans—to earn profits.
After walking us through his research on how the British empire governed their colonies through paper and archives in the 18th century, we shift to how we are governed inhumanely by our universities: by business people and executives who often have right-wing political and capitalist interests. Asheesh details his phenom...2021-09-201h 44
Learning on the JobLesson #19: Sometimes Silence is SO LOUDIn this week’s episode, Nic reflects on and enjoys the blank spaces in his calendar and James makes the final push to the end of the semester before the summer break. The duo check-in about the role of Learning on the Job within the ever-expansive ecosystem of higher education. We get a little “meta” but we promise we’re not like the other podcasts. We’re a ~cool~ podcast. Shout out to all the minoritized faculty making magic!
The theme is silence. Are you silent? Or – *in best Oprah voice* – are you being SILENCEDT? The recent moves around D...2021-05-251h 16
Undercurrents Radio WMUAThe Right to Vote? (Asheesh Siddique 4-8-21)UMass professor of history Asheesh Siddique discusses struggles, victories, and set-backs in securing the right to vote in the U.S. Historically, groups have been excluded, included, and excluded. Currently Republican sates are attempting draconian restrictions on being able to cast a ballot, and Federal legislation to protect voting rights is being contested in the Senate. (4-8-21) 2021-04-0928 min
UndercurrentsShould've Seen This ComingUMass history professor Asheesh Siddique talks to Undercurrents about his book, Legal Meanings: Intention and Methods in the US, and analyzes to what degree the January 6 insurrection was at all unprecedented or unforeseeable. Spoiler alert: it's not very high. 2021-02-2429 minUndercurrents Radio WMUAInsurrection & U.S. history (Asheesh Siddique, 1-28-22)Asheesh Siddique of the UMass History Department, discusses the recent failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In the context of U.S. history, this is one of many examples of violent response by one segment of the public to progressive change.2021-01-2929 min