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Pages: 127
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
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Language: en
Pages: 418
Pages: 418
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-18 - Publisher: Vintage
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, tr
Language: en
Pages: 127
Pages: 127
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-17 - Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Talented historian Maya Jasonoff offers an alternative history of the British Empire. It is not about conquest – but rather a collection of startling and fasc
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-24 - Publisher: Studies in Imperialism
This title assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
Language: en
Pages: 436
Pages: 436
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-12 - Publisher: Macmillan
A history of the British administration in South Asia during the reign of Queen Victoria profiles the India Civil Service and the society they attempted to buil
