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Hating Empire Properly : the Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism.
'Hating Empire Properly' 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 concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 'Hating Empire Properly' 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 concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largely unacknowledged part of the matrix of Enlightenment thought in which eighteenth-century European and American self-conceptions evolved. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823251810 0823251810 |