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Empress: Queen Victoria and India

byMiles Taylor

Empress examines queen Victoria and India, combining Miles Taylor's clear narrative with the perspective of a biographical portrait. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. The book ultimately clarifies what made these developments possible, who experienced their effects, and why the story remains significant.

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

Oct 02, 2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

408

ISBN

9780300118094