The Colonial Dream: Imperial Knowledge and the French-Malagasy Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment 9783110715316, 9783110715248

The Colonial Dream: Imperial Knowledge and the French-Malagasy Encounters in the Age of Enlightenment 9783110715316, 9783110715248

European expansion began in the early modern period, but in the 18th century Europeans were still far from establishing

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Palestine in the Victorian Age: Colonial Encounters in the Holy Land 9780755643127, 9780755643134, 9780755643165, 9780755643141

Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain’s a

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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule 9780520927742

Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the makin

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The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India 9780804778114

By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capita

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Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment 9781503618916

This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the

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Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina 9780824866914

Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed

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Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines [Illustrated] 0190924705, 9780190924706

When encountering unfamiliar environments in India and the Philippines, the British and the Americans wrote extensively

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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment 9780822386186

Uses C.L.R. James’sThe Black Jacobins as a jumping-off point for a reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial concepts

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The Age of Enlightenment: The 18th Century Philosophers

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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness : Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment 9781611484311, 9781611484304

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happin

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