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 world from literature to colonial policy. In this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current schol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Ashley L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2020]
Colección:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Temas:
1700-1799
Imperialism in popular culture > Great Britain > 18th century.
Impérialisme dans la culture populaire > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain > Georgian Era (1714-1837)
British colonies.
Imperialism in popular culture.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > 18th century.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Indies mentality
  • A trip to Vauxall: The two Indies in the fashionable world
  • Diagnosing the (American) crisis in Foote's The Cozeners and Burney's Evelina
  • A black British racial formation: Julius Soubise in London and Calcutta
  • Political slavery and oriental despotism from Haiti to Bengal
  • The geography of freedom in the age of revolutions
  • A sociable and aristocratic empire: Lady Nugent's east and west India journals
  • Colonial mentalities, postcolonial epistemologies.

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