Hating Empire Properly : The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism.
Title:
Hating Empire Properly : The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism.
Author:
Agnani, Sunil M.
ISBN:
9780823251810
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity -- Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics -- PART I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment -- 1 / Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot's Thought -- 2 /On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes -- PART II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique -- 3 /Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest -- 4 /Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity -- 5 /Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of the Americas in Burke's Asia Writings -- Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This con.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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