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‘More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty’s Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian’s most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.’ Niall FergusonLiberty’s Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.Early in the afternoon of 25 November 1783, the American Revolution was finally over; the British were gone, the patriots were back and a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of the emerging United States. Territorial independence from Great Britain had effectively begun.In 'Liberty’s Exiles’, Maya Jasanoff examines the realities of the end of the Revolution, through looking at the lives of the Loyalist refugees – those men and women who took Britain's side. She tells the story of Elizabeth Johnston from Savannah, whose family went on to settle in St Augustine, Scotland, Jamaica and Nova Scotia; Reverend Jacob Bailey, who fled from New England across rough seas to Canada with his family and little more than the clothes on his back; five-year-old Catherine Skinner – the daughter of a loyalist – who was trapped as a prisoner in her home, hiding from the gunshots of rebel raiders. Their experiences speak eloquently of a larger history of exile, mobility and the shaping of the British Empire in the wake of the American War.Beautifully written and rich with source material, 'Liberty’s Exiles' is a history of the American Revolution unlike any before.
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Talented historian Maya Jasanoff 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 Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched into the walls of Egyptian temples: in this imaginative book, Maya Jasanoff delves into the stories behind artefacts like these to uncover the lives of collectors in India and Egypt who lived on the frontiers of European empire. ‘Edge of Empire’ traces their exploits to tell an intimate history of imperialism.Written and researched on four continents, ‘Edge of Empire’ tells a story about the making of European empires, ones that break away from the grand narratives of power, exploitation, and resistance, to delve into the personal dimensions of imperialism. She asks what people brought to imperial frontiers and what they took away, and what motives drove them, whether ambition, opportunism, curiosity or greed. This rich and compelling book enters a world where people lived, loved and died, and identified with each other across cultures much more than our prejudices about ‘Empire’ might suggest.
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CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNERSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global world, from one of the best historians writing today. Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaysia to the Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world.Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in London as an author. He saw the surging, competitive ‘new imperialism’ that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places ‘beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,’ and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals.In a compelling blend of history, biography and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works: The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spellbinding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world – and through it to our own.
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VINNARE AV CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2018 "Conrad kommer till liv i Jasanoffs mästerliga bok ... " /Ngugi wa Thiong’o i New York Times" "Upplysande, medkännande, superb" /John Le Carré "Jasanoff har inte sparat någon möda för att förstå den värld som format en författare hon älskar och det gör boken till en njutning att läsa." /Adam Hochschild i "Foreign Affairs" "Ett mästerverk ... En av vår tids viktigaste böcker om kolonialismen, skriven av en av dagens mest lysande unga historiker." /William Dalrymple i "The Guardian" "Boken är så välskriven ... Det är bara att njuta – tänk vad sällan man får säga det om ett historiskt arbete."/ "The Times" "Magnifik … Boken är en biografi över Joseph Conrad, men genom Conrad berättar Jasanoff om imerpialismen och dess offer."/"Los Angeles Review of Books" Joseph Conrad förknippas ofta med sin kortroman Mörkrets hjärta (1899), en ursinnig och ända in i våra dagar omdebatterad vidräkning med kolonialismens förbrytelser i fristaten Kongo. Men också hans andra berättelser – Conrad uppfattades till en början främst som en skildrare av sjömanslivet – befinner sig i en sorts kritisk dialog med det sena artonhundratalets motsägelsefulla värld, en värld som var i färd med att globaliseras och där ekonomin, teknologin och storpolitiken i samspel höll på att förändra människors livsvillkor i grunden. Det är till den världen historikern Maya Jasanoff tar oss med i sin inspirerande blandning av författarbiografi och historieessä. Hon berättar inte bara den lätt osannolika historien om hur polacken Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, barn till politiskt radikala föräldrar, kom att bli den naturaliserade engelsmannen Joseph Conrad och en av den engelska litteraturens mest beundrade och uppburna författare, hon visar också hur en sådan förvandling var praktiskt och mänskligt möjlig. Utan sina erfarenheter av sjömanslivet, tropikerna (framför allt Sydostasien) och det koloniala exploateringsmaskineriet hade Conrad aldrig blivit den han blev. Eller så grundligt kluven till civilisationens verkliga eller inbillade välsignelser. Och kanske är det den kluvenheten som förklarar Conrads förblivande aktualitet. Och som gör att Gryningsvakten indirekt också blir en bok om vår egen globaliserade värld och dessa många motsägelser.