Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400075461ISBN-10:1400075467UPC:9781400075461Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Expeditions & DiscoveriesBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.04 x 5.28 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCSNG0V89Y
Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400075461ISBN-10:1400075467UPC:9781400075461Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:World, Europe, Expeditions & DiscoveriesBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.04 x 5.28 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SCSNG0V89Y
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...
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