Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings by Bernstein, Jeremy

Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566632812)

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Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings by Bernstein, Jeremy

Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings

$28.95
Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings by Bernstein, Jeremy

Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings

$28.95
Format: Hardcover
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Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, where a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late 18th century the person most responsible for this was Warren Hastings, Britain's first governor-general of India. Jeremy Bernstein brings Hastings's story vividly to life amidst the rise of British power. His impeachment trial, one of the great spectacles of the age, forms the conclusion to this fascinating, unusual, and ultimately powerful narrative. "A riveting book, beautifully researched and narrated....It has opened a whole chapter, many chapters, of social and political history for me."-Oliver Sacks.

Author: Jeremy Bernstein
ISBN-10: 1566632811
ISBN-13: 9781566632812
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 03/20/2000
Pages: 335
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.34w x 1.41d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2000 pg. 441
Publishers Weekly 04/17/2000 pg. 65
Booklist 04/01/2000 pg. 1427
New York Times 06/11/2000 pg. 21
Choice 10/01/2000 pg. 397
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2000 pg. 39
By Jeremy Bernstein
By Jeremy Bernstein
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For nearly three decades Jeremy Bernstein wrote profiles of scientists for the New Yorker. Many were prize-winners, and his book Einstein was nominated for the National Book Award. Mr. Bernstein, a theoretical physicist best known for his nonscientific work, has also written The Merely Personal and Oppenheimer as well as Hitler's Uranium Club; Three Degrees Above Zero; and Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos. He lives in New York City and Aspen, Colorado.-

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