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Enlightened Colonialism
Damien . Ed(S): Tricoire
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Description for Enlightened Colonialism
Hardback. Editor(s): Tricoire, Damien. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319542799
SKU
V9783319542799
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About Damien . Ed(S): Tricoire
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”.
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