Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850

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Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the East 1750–1850
Maya Jasanoff

Talented historian Maya Jasonoff 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.

MAYA JASANOFF

EDGE OF EMPIRE

Conquest and Collecting in the East1750-1850

London, New York, Toronto and Sydney

For my parents, border crossers

Table of Contents

Cover (#u0a9d142f-653e-5da0-94b2-fe09511c3501)

Title Page (#u225d69a6-61bf-5559-bfdb-f9b0666233a5)

Dedication (#u38beaeb5-2a3f-58c1-8d28-8ed9a676fd30)

INTRODUCTION (#u47f52a48-f23e-5b0e-b2d9-9b681c888f44)

PART ONE: INDIA 1750-1799 (#u3ed7bc62-a6c7-531f-9b75-df794e12c4c6)

CHAPTER ONE: Conquests (#u03c87570-368b-5f1e-af65-e083a1909e74)

I. War of the World

II. Trade to Conquest (#ulink_8c91224f-ab77-5055-aba9-9b895f69578b)

III. Clive of India, Clive of Britain (#ulink_d672ded3-85c0-5810-aec0-80f92c456e0f)

IV. Empire Unmasked (#ulink_b7eae207-6ca2-5947-b19c-118bef7e2533)

CHAPTER TWO: Crossings (#ucfacff16-ef20-5f68-9592-f8eed104a345)

I. Beyond the Frontier

II. Chameleon Capital (#ulink_fd510d32-e4d4-58d3-9616-c60d2ca74955)

III. Orientalists? (#ulink_5d70e964-5e0b-5973-a27a-40513da13843)

IV. Connoisseurs? (#ulink_931971f3-9d67-5b99-93a8-d1fb1460ab46)

CHAPTER THREE: Compromises (#u240b39de-327e-5e31-9097-94f634bd5aa8)

I. Going Un-Native

II. Settling (#ulink_802b1428-4e9e-5fb0-9d38-d709438424de)

III. Staying On (#ulink_2fe0ab00-ac09-5af1-b238-f97e07d94c48)

IV. Legacies (#ulink_ad90a4bb-08fc-564b-9402-45bd75f8d3ee)

PART TWO: IMPERIAL COLLISION 1798-1801 (#u690aba2c-3257-5680-a98f-33b6de06b1ce)

CHAPTER FOUR: Invading Egypt (#u5a9fcc10-1cd6-5802-aef7-abb038bdc68f)

I. A New War, a New Empire

II. Westward Bound (#ulink_a22bbc18-8430-502a-828b-4494dc01905b)

III. Empire by Design (#ulink_5a5a60a3-6772-5dbc-8d62-cc6bad42330f)

IV. Abdallah Bonaparte (#ulink_1ae2f4db-f9d2-5d1e-b3a8-405e8cd85b0d)

CHAPTER FIVE: Seizing Seringapatam (#ua93ec39b-5316-5206-b152-0665e1fbaf8f)

I. Citizen Tipu

II. L’Alliance Française (#ulink_564c08e7-c387-56ca-9aac-212116b412c0)

III. A Dangerous Liaison (#ulink_140cd617-cb50-5117-9791-768b5240a704)

IV. The Fall, and After (#ulink_3319a7be-eb33-57df-831d-3d4f1ecd82dd)

CHAPTER SIX: The Objects of Victory (#uf935649e-024c-512d-835a-3cac70bcfca4)

I. Trophies

II. A Tropical Grand Tour (#ulink_d2015cc4-895b-57eb-aa63-732ffc61e1d3)

III. From Kaveri to Nile (#ulink_417faf2a-8237-5eda-bf7a-869ab1103d32)

PART THREE: EGYPT 1801-1840 (#uc1253ab9-14e7-5666-8d7d-40f79c5f49bb)

CHAPTER SEVEN: Rivals (#u3a4aa2e5-2ba8-5056-8185-cb8567c0caab)

I. Expansion Under Cover

II. War and Piece (#ulink_5ee749e2-3411-50aa-976c-90d1d7f71d38)

III. Personal and Political (#ulink_7641a3e6-1c96-52f6-9d8f-672e8b376b27)

IV. An Amateur Abroad (#ulink_b7808103-bcdc-5b24-995e-6d10f36f8784)

CHAPTER EIGHT: Removals (#u02efba72-ae83-5036-a8fc-f1d95d2ba987)

I. The Partisans

II. The Patriot (#ulink_09407cbf-91f5-574a-989e-eaf7e97a3084)

III. A Clash of Reinventions (#ulink_36013aa5-fda2-582b-a1f9-a502b0d164c8)

IV. Gentlemen and Capitalists (#ulink_a388587b-d0a2-5110-89f3-cc9137d94b2c)

CHAPTER NINE: Recoveries (#u44786149-26a9-5f76-bbda-5e43cfe9cfb3)

I. The Two Egypts

II. France Redux (#ulink_95c70963-02e2-5453-95b5-46ade7ae0f56)

III. Preservers and Destroyers (#ulink_e6f0d325-ea85-501e-8b19-30d731aebf54)

IV. Collecting Back (#ulink_821fb539-69dc-58cf-8d44-704a0e4dd22e)

CONCLUSION (#u75b9363d-d477-5982-abf7-f7f315f23323)

Acknowledgments (#u52ad4c05-ea43-51eb-900c-51e94fb53bb0)

Note on Sources (#ud1338c49-a915-5f2e-b755-fc8138d8a63c)

About the Author (#ue1a0d012-5c4e-549d-93de-4361cf2353e5)

Notes (#uecad5ecf-c4d2-57cb-bc2a-d5cfd4bf6051)

Index (#u9abe0cbd-5000-5c8b-bc2b-463f361f8be4)

Praise (#u039b8324-527f-5287-b234-aa95e56cc8c1)

Copyright (#u68ccc2e7-a54b-5d9e-95b0-751f0fcd8943)

About the Publisher (#u125eee90-502d-56a5-bb7e-1599cec16447)