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Hating empire properly : the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism /
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Enlightenment, colonialism, modernity
- Introduction: companies, colonies, and their critics
- Part I: Denis Diderot: the two Indies of the French Enlightenment
- 1. Doux commerce, douce colonisation: consensual colonialism in Diderot's thought
- 2. On the use and abuse of anger for life: ressentiment and revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes
- Part II: Edmund Burke: political analogy and Enlightenment critique
- 3. Between France and India in 1790: custom and arithmetic reason in a country of conquest
- 4. Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: fearing the Enlightenment and colonial modernity with Edmund Burke
- 5. Atlantic revolutions and their Indian echoes: the place of America in Burke's Asia writings
- Reflections on the revolution in St. Domingue/Haiti
- Compensation in the East, or, From Virginia to Hindostan
- Epilogue. Hating empire properly: European anticolonialism at its limit.