Maya Jasanoff

She is the author of two prize-winning books, Edge of Empire (2005) and Liberty's Exiles (2011), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction. She is currently writing a book on "The Worlds of Joseph Conrad," which uses Conrad's life and fiction to provide a transcontinental history of the world circa 1900.

 

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