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The Bureaucracy of Beauty is a wide-ranging work of cultural theory that connects literary studies; postcoloniality; the history of architecture and design; and the history and present of empire. Professor Ananya Roy of UC Berkeley calls it a "fantastic book;" and in many ways this is the best description of it. The Bureaucracy of Beauty begins with nineteenth-century Britains Department of Science and Arts; a venture organized by the Board of Trade; and how the DSA exerted a powerful influence on the growth of museums; design schools; and architecture throughout the British Empire. But this is only the books literal subject: in a remarkable set of chapters; Dutta explores the development of international laws of intellectual property; ideas of design pedagogy; the technological distinction between craft and industry; the relation of colonial tutelage to economic policy; the politics and technology of exhibition; and competing philosophies of aesthetics. His thinking across these areas is ignited by engagements with Benjamin; Marx; Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham; Kant; Mill; Ruskin; and Gandhi.A rich study in the history of ideas; of design and architecture; and of cultural politics; The Bureaucracy of Beauty converges on the issues of present-day globalization. From nineteenth-century Britain to twenty-first century America; The Bureaucracy of Beauty offers a theory of how things - big things -change.