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The Global Indies : British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815 /
A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic, from literature to colonial policy In this lively book, Ashley Cohen reveals how eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire-not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnecte...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction The Indies Mentality
- Prelude A Trip to Vauxhall: The Two Indies in the Fashionable World
- One Diagnosing the (American) Crisis in Foote's The Cozeners and Burney's Evelina
- Two A Black British Racial Formation: Julius Soubise in London and Calcutta
- Three Political Slavery and Oriental Despotism from Haiti to Bengal
- Four The Geography of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions
- Five A Sociable and Aristocratic Empire: Lady Nugent's East and West India Journals
- Coda Colonial Mentalities, Postcolonial Epistemologies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index