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.

【作者簡介】

馬婭•亞桑諾夫是哈佛大學柯立芝曆史學教授。她的第一部作品《帝國邊緣》（2005），獲得瞭2005年的達夫•庫珀奬，被《經濟學人》《衛報》《星期日泰晤士報》等多傢媒體評為年度好書。第二部作品《被自由流放的人》（2011），獲得瞭國傢圖書評論非虛構小說奬和喬治•華盛頓圖書奬，入圍塞繆爾•約翰遜奬（現在被稱為巴美列捷福奬）。第三部作品《守候黎明》獲得2018年坎迪爾曆史奬，入圍2017年達夫•庫珀奬。作為2013年古根海姆研究員，亞桑諾夫獲得瞭2017年溫德姆-坎貝爾非虛構圖書奬。她經常在《紐約時報》、《衛報》和《紐約書評》等齣版物上發錶論文和評論。