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Edge of Empire. Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850
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Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of. cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire.A Palladian mansion filled with Western art in the centre of old Calcutta. the Mughal Emperors letters...
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Maya Jasanoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire It is not about conquest - but rather a collection of startling and fascinating personal accounts of. cross-cultural exchange from those who found themselves on the edges of Empire.A Palladian mansion filled with Western art in the centre of old Calcutta. the Mughal Emperors letters in an archive in the French Alps. the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples:. in this imaginative book. Maya Jasanoff delves into the stories behind artefacts like these to uncover the lives of collectors in India and Egypt who lived on the frontiers of European empire Edge of Empire traces their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism.Written and researched on four continents. ...
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