TY  - GEN
N2  - This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents, their narratives of progress, and their political aims and strategies, it asks whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new colonialism between 1760 and 1820. Has Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For decades, historians of political thought, philosophy, and literature have debated this question. On one side, many postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped delegitimize non-European cultures. On the other side, some historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at least some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have been "anti-colonialists". Surprisingly enough, both sides have focused on literary and philosophical texts, but have rarely taken political and social practice into account.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5
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AB  - This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents, their narratives of progress, and their political aims and strategies, it asks whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new colonialism between 1760 and 1820. Has Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For decades, historians of political thought, philosophy, and literature have debated this question. On one side, many postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped delegitimize non-European cultures. On the other side, some historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at least some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have been "anti-colonialists". Surprisingly enough, both sides have focused on literary and philosophical texts, but have rarely taken political and social practice into account.
T1  - Enlightened Colonialism :Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason /
AU  - Tricoire, Damien,
CN  - JV61-JV152
N1  - Off-campus access available to SOAS staff and students only, using SOAS ID and password.
ID  - 1358487
KW  - History.
KW  - World history.
KW  - Imperialism.
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - World politics.
SN  - 9783319542805
SN  - 331954280X
SN  - 9783319542799
SN  - 3319542796
TI  - Enlightened Colonialism :Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason /
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