Empire on Edge by Rajeshwari Dutt HARDBACK 9781108493420

Empire on Edge\nby Rajeshwari Dutt\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Rajeshwari Dutt\nTitle: Empire on Edge\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Colonialism and imperialism\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781108493420\nISBN-10: 1108493424\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow does empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted, during the second half of the nineteenth century, to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucat\u00E1n''s Caste War (18471901), a long-lasting, violent struggle between seg.