Enlightened Colonialism
Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason
Editors: Tricoire, Damien (Ed.)
Free Preview- Expands the debate on whether Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism by exploring political and social practices
- Brings together studies about the overseas empires of Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal as well as the continental empires of Russia and Austria
- Explores the interaction and assimilationism between European, indigenous, creole, and mix-raced elites
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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. - About the authors
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Damien Tricoire is Assistant Professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He has published the following monographs: Mit Gott rechnen (2013; translated into French as La Vierge et le Roi, 2017), Falsche Freunde (2015, criticizing narratives of Enlightenment history). He has just completed a monograph on the topic “The Colonial Dream: Knowledge, Enlightenment, and the French-Malagasy Early Modern Encounters”.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-22
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The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-Colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-Century France
Pages 25-45
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Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar
Pages 47-70
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Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Native Identities
Pages 73-92
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New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, Late Eighteenth Century)
Pages 93-110
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Enlightened Colonialism
- Book Subtitle
- Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason
- Editors
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- Damien Tricoire
- Series Title
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-54280-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-54279-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-85361-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 318
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
