India, the Indies, and Enlightenment Anticolonialism Agnani, Sunil M. creator text bibliography nyu New York Fordham University Press 2013 monographic eng

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xxiii, 280 pages : ill. ; 24 cm 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. Sunil M. Agnani. Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-265) and index. Imperialism History Imperialism Philosophy JC359 .A55 2013 325.3 AGN/H 9780823251803 (cloth : alk. paper) 2012046396 DLC 130130 20240117123322.0 17607799