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Jasanoff Maya: Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750-1850

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: 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. A Palladian mansion filled with western art in the centre of old Calcutta, the Mughal Emperor's letters in an archive in the French…