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.
- 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
- 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
- Series ISSN
- 2635-1633
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 318
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics