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020 _a9780823251803 (cloth : alk. paper)
041 _aeng
082 0 0 _a325.3
_bAGN
100 1 _aAgnani, Sunil M.
_917261
245 1 0 _aHating empire properly :
_bthe two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism /
_cSunil M. Agnani.
260 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c2013.
300 _axxiii, 280 pages :
505 1 _aPrologue: 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.
650 0 _aImperialism
_xHistory.
_917262
650 0 _aImperialism
_xPhilosophy.
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