" Collecting the Globe is chock-full of appealing incidents and details . The work succeeds admirably in providing a detailed history of the East India Marine Society Museum. Public historians interested in earlier generations' struggles with collecting, arranging, and preserving materials will Find much to spark thought and conversation."-- The Public Historian "Well researched, full of compelling details and anecdotes, and nicely written, Collecting the Globe will appeal to anyone interested in museums, maritime history, and nineteenth-century patterns of trade and urban development."--Andrew McClellan, author of The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao " The book is not simply an origin story but a trip through time . Reading Collecting the Globe is a bit like observing a zoetrope story in motion--the story is compelling, but the mechanism of the story's production is equally fascinating."-- New England Quarterly " Collecting the Globe fulfills its mission as part of University of Massachusetts Press's Public History in Historical Perspective series. It is a fascinating view into the creation of the country's first museum that collected on an international basis nearly fifty years before the formation of the Smithsonian Institution.

"-- H-Net Reviews.