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Bernstein, Jeremy

 
9781566632812: Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings
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ISBN 10: 1566632811 ISBN 13: 9781566632812
Editorial: Ivan R. Dee, 2000

Sinopsis

Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, where a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late 18th century the person most responsible for this was Warren Hastings, Britain’s first governor-general of India. Jeremy Bernstein brings Hastings’s story vividly to life amidst the rise of British power. His impeachment trial, one of the great spectacles of the age, forms the conclusion to this fascinating, unusual, and ultimately powerful narrative. "A riveting book, beautifully researched and narrated....It has opened a whole chapter, many chapters, of social and political history for me."-Oliver Sacks.

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Acerca del autor

Jeremy Bernstein is a former staff writer for the New Yorker, contributor to The Atlantic Monthly, New York Review of Books, and Scientific American, among others, and author of numerous books.

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This historical adventure story of the first order chronicles the life of Warren Hastings, who planted the roots of the British Empire in India. In the late eighteenth century Hastings worked his way up from the lowest clerk in the East India Company to become Britain's first governor-general of India. He sponsored the first British expedition to Tibet and the first translation into English of the Bhagavadgita. Yet upon his return to England his enemies charged him with "high crimes and misdemeanors". His trial was one of the great spectacles of the age. His impeachment, filled with drama and replete with the trappings of state, forms the conclusion to Jeremy Bernstein's gripping narrative.

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Editorial
Ivan R. Dee
Año de publicación
2000
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1566632811
ISBN 13 
9781566632812
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Número de páginas
336
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ISBN 10:  1854107534 ISBN 13:  9781854107534
Editorial: Aurum Press, 2001
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