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  1. Hating empire properly
    the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment anticolonialism
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    'Hating Empire Properly' produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with... more

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    'Hating Empire Properly' produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed to be a largely unacknowledged part of the matrix of Enlightenment thought in which eighteenth-century European and American self-conceptions evolved.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823253050
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    RVK Categories: CF 3117 ; CF 2517 ; MK 2600 ; MC 6200 ; MC 5000
    Subjects: Antikolonialismus; Indien <Motiv>; Haiti <Motiv>; Imperialismus; Aufklärung; Kolonialismus; Haitianische Revolution; Unabhängigkeitsbewegung; Kolonie; Imperialism; Imperialism
    Other subjects: Burke, Edmund (1729-1797); Diderot, Denis (1713-1784); Toussaint Louverture, François Dominique (1743-1803)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 280 pages), Illustrations (black and white)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index