Edge of Empire Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850

A dramatic history of the formative years of the British Empire captures the events of the time through the lives of individuals who played a key role in the era and the objects they chose as memorials to their experiences, including a Palladian mansion filled with Western artifacts in Calcutta, a French archive of letters by a Mughal emperor, and other unique objects. Reprint.