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Edge of Empire:

Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 12, 2006 - History - 416 pages
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.

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User Review  - Raymonds009 - Goodreads

Too much immersion in the insignificant. I had to stop short. Read full review

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Good to know some elites were having a good time while those pesky masses died of starvation Read full review

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About the author (2006)

Antoine Maya Jasanoff was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Yale and is currently assistant professor of British history at the University of Virginia. This is her first book.

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