Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Jasanoff, Maya

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400075461)

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Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Jasanoff, Maya

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850

$18.95
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 by Jasanoff, Maya

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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In this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff uncovers the extraordinary stories of collectors who lived on the frontiers of the British Empire in India and Egypt, tracing their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism. Jasanoff delves beneath the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance to look at the British Empire through the eyes of the people caught up in it. Written and researched on four continents, Edge of Empire enters a world where people lived, loved, mingled, and identified with one another in ways richer and more complex than previous accounts have led us to believe were possible. And as this book demonstrates, traces of that world remain tangible--and topical--today. An innovative, persuasive, and provocative work of history.

Author: Maya Jasanoff
ISBN-10: 1400075467
ISBN-13: 9781400075461
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2006
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.28w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/08/2006 pg. 36
By Maya Jasanoff
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Maya Jasanoff is the Coolidge Professor of History at Harvard. She is the author of the prize-winning Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 (2005) and Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (2011), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction and the George Washington Book Prize. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The New York Review of Books.

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