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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Agnani, Sunil M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""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 Diderotâ€?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 Burkeâ€?s Asia Writings""; ""Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""