Enlightened Colonialism : Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason / edited by Damien Tricoire.
Tricoire, Damien, editor.; Springer SOAS EBA History.
2017
JV61-JV152
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Title Enlightened Colonialism : Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason / edited by Damien Tricoire.
ISBN 9783319542805
331954280X
9783319542799
3319542796
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XI, 318 pages 1 illustration) : online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5 doi
9783319542799
Call Number JV61-JV152
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.3
Summary 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.
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Series Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Chapter 1: Introduction; Damien Tricoire
Part I The Invention of Enlightenment and the Return of Assimilationist Policy
Chapter 2: The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-century France; Damien Tricoire
Chapter 3: Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar; Damien Tricoire
Part II From Civilizing to Assimilationist Policy
Chapter 4: Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Policies in the Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Indigenous Identities; Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida
Chapter 5: New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, late 18th century); Lía Quarleri
Part III The Invention of Intra-European Colonialism
Chapter 6: Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-century Russian Empire; Ricarda Vulpius
Chapter 7: Creating Differences for Integration: Enlightened Reforms and the Civilizing Mission in the Eastern European Possessions of the Habsburg monarchy (1750-1815); Klemens Kaps
Part IV Towards Civilizing Policy in the British Empire
Chapter 8: "Gradually Reclaiming Them from a State of Barbarism": Emergence of and Ambivalence in the Aboriginal Civilization Project in Canada (1815-1857); Alain Beaulieu
Chapter 9: Europe in an Indian mirror: Comparing Conceptions of Civil Government in Abu Taleb's Travels (1810); Sven Trakulhun
Part V Civilization, Racial Order, and Slavery
Chapter 10: Jean-François de Saint-Lambert and His Moral conte "Ziméo" (1769) in the Context of Abolitionist and Imperial Activities; Anja Bandau
Chapter 11: Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760-1772: the Afterlife of Tacky's Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism; Trevor Burnard
Chapter 12: France, the Abolition of Slavery, and Abolitionisms in the Eighteenth Century; Matthias Middell
Chapter 13: Colonial Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Julien Raimond and Milscent Créole; Jeremy D. Popkin
Chapter 14: Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Civilization, and the Pre-History of Negritude in the Kingdom of Henry Christophe; Doris L. Garraway.

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