TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jasanoff,Maya
TI  - Edge of empire : lives, culture, and conquest in the East, 1750-1850
SN  - 9781400041671
U1  - 909.097124107 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A Knopf
KW  - British colonies
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Great Britain
N2  - 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
ER  -