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HATING EMPIRE PROPERLY
HATING EMPIRE PROPERLY
Subtitle:
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Book Category:
Political Science > General
Author:
Agnani, Sunil M
ISBN 13:
9780823251803
Price:
USD 45.00
Publication Year:
2013

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In an outstanding contribution to the literature on the Enlightenment, liberalism, and empire, Agnani (University of Illinois, Chicago) reads Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke to illuminate the critiques of empire in Enlightenment thought. This book is exemplary for engaging the contradictions and consistencies in both thinkers; it is distinctive for drawing together writings on the East and West Indies to highlight colonialism's shaping of European modernity. In part 1, the author explores Diderot's condemnation of colonial practices alongside his fantasy of a "consensual colonialism.

 

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