"Sound in the Imperial Archive" looks and listens back across the Acoustics of Empire essays and considers the range and diversity of the sounds-noise, music, birdsong, explosions, traffic, human chatter, and more-of the nineteenth-century empire brought together in the collection's pages. This closing chapter suggests that, if we are to build a properly historical sense of empire both on the ground and in the round, then its sounds provide fine-grained, evocative ways of understanding more about imperial power: its modes of imposition and dissemination, its spread, and its unevenness, as well as the day-to-day experience of living in an imperial world.
