Acknowledgments
I would like to thank Alice Stevenson for inspiring this idea and Subhadra Das, James Delbourgo, Alice Procter, Christina Riggs, and Simon Schaffer for further input and ideas in writing this essay.
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Brusius Mirjam
Mirjam Brusius joined the German Historical Institute London as Research Fellow in Colonial and Global History in 2017 after holding postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Society. Her research interests concern the history of collecting and visual culture across Modern Europe and the Middle East. [email protected]