The creation and dissolution of empires has been a constant feature of human history from ancient times through the present day. Establishing new identities and
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, tr
A mansion filled with Western art in the center of old Calcutta, the Mughal emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers
Although empires have shaped the political development of virtually all the states of the modern world, "imperialism" has not figured largely in the mainstream
In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean