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

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minimal wear to book corners and edges.Uncorrected proof copy.

Talented historian Maya Jasonoff 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.

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. (publishers blurb)