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Hating empire properly : the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism / Sunil M. Agnani.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.Description: xxiii, 280 pagesISBN:
  • 9780823251803 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.3 AGN
Incomplete contents:
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.
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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.

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