Maya Jasanoff

Edge of Empire (eBook, ePUB)

Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007347308
• Artikelnr.: 39950222

Autorenporträt

Maya Jasanoff is Coolidge Professor of history at Harvard University. Her first book, Edge of Empire, was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous publications including the Economist, Guardian and Sunday Times. Her second, Liberty's Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize (now Baillie Gifford). Her third book, The Dawn Watch, won the 2018 Cundill Prize -the richest non-fiction historical literature prize in the world - and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize.

A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Jasanoff won the prestigious 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction. Her essays and reviews appear frequently in publications including The Guardian, the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books.