Much of the best scholarship today is distinguished by a vigorous and sustained challenge to old imperialist verities. Priya Satia's Time's Monster, which comes out of a long, if little-noticed, intellectual counter-tradition in Asia and Europe, bracingly describes how our moral and political imagination became so constrained and how it could be liberated Pankaj Mishra, New Statesman, Books of the Year
Priya Satia is the award-winning author of Spies in Arabia and Empire of Guns. The Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of British History at Stanford University, she has written for the Financial Times, The Nation, Washington Post, and other outlets.