Maya Jasanoff, Author . Knopf $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4167-1
In her debut book, Jasanoff challenges the idea that the British Empire imposed its own culture on its colonies, arguing instead that the empire thrived because it was able to "find ways of accommodating difference." As evidence, she traces...
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Maya Jasanoff, Knopf, $30 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4168-8
The plight of American Loyalists during and after the Revolutionary War has been largely forgotten. Harvard historian Jasanoff (Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850) corrects that omission with a masterful account of...
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Maya Jasanoff. Penguin Press, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59420-581-1
Harvard historian Jasanoff (Liberty’s Exiles) undertakes a review of Joseph Conrad’s life and work that broadens into an acute, original study of 19th-century European imperialism and an emergent globalized world. Polish-born Conrad (1857–1924) was...
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