Hating empire properly :
Agnani, Sunil M.
Hating empire properly : the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism / Sunil M. Agnani. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - xxiii, 280 pages :
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 with Edmund Burke -- 5. Atlantic revolutions and their Indian echoes: the place of America in Burke's Asia writings -- Reflections on the revolution in St. Domingue/Haiti -- Compensation in the East, or, From Virginia to Hindostan -- Epilogue. Hating empire properly: European anticolonialism at its limit.
9780823251803 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imperialism--History.
Imperialism--Philosophy.
325.3 / AGN
Hating empire properly : the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism / Sunil M. Agnani. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. - xxiii, 280 pages :
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 with Edmund Burke -- 5. Atlantic revolutions and their Indian echoes: the place of America in Burke's Asia writings -- Reflections on the revolution in St. Domingue/Haiti -- Compensation in the East, or, From Virginia to Hindostan -- Epilogue. Hating empire properly: European anticolonialism at its limit.
9780823251803 (cloth : alk. paper)
Imperialism--History.
Imperialism--Philosophy.
325.3 / AGN
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