Maya Jasanoff

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Maya Jasanoff


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History, Nonfiction


Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettle ...more

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“History is like therapy for the present, it makes it talk about its parents.”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
tags: history, therapy
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“All writing is an act of translation.”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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“Anyone could be savage. Everywhere could go dark”
― Maya Jasanoff, The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
tags: civilization, nature, savage
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