On the Governing of Empires (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848611160)

Finding Kristallnacht in an optician's chart, flushing heresy from a Michelin guide, procuring princesses courtesy of furnishings catalogues and constructing a guided tour of Bedlam from the names of British moths, Alasdair Paterson brings a Byzantine range of techniques - cut-and-mosaic, palimpsest dialectic, diplomatic transplant and induced mutation - to a series of innocent texts, most without a prior thought of poetry in their heads, to build an indispensible vademecum for the imperially and post-imperially inclined.