| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 309 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
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Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Contents |
The Indies mentality -- A trip to Vauxall: The two Indies in the fashionable world -- Diagnosing the (American) crisis in Foote's The Cozeners and Burney's Evelina -- A black British racial formation: Julius Soubise in London and Calcutta -- Political slavery and oriental despotism from Haiti to Bengal -- The geography of freedom in the age of revolutions -- A sociable and aristocratic empire: Lady Nugent's east and west India journals -- Colonial mentalities, postcolonial epistemologies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy. In this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. She also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. Close-reading a mixed archive of plays, poems, travel narratives, parliamentary speeches, political pamphlets, visual satires, paintings, memoirs, manuscript letters, and diaries, Cohen reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, Cohen demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Language |
In English. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
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Imperialism in popular culture -- Great Britain -- 18th century.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain -- Georgian Era (1714-1837) |
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British colonies |
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Imperialism in popular culture |
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: COHEN, ASHLEY L. GLOBAL INDIES. [Place of publication not identified] YALE UNIV Press, 2021 0300239971 (OCoLC)1146562862 |
| ISBN |
9780300255690 (electronic bk.) |
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0300255691 (electronic bk.) |
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0300239971 |
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9780300239973 |
| Standard No. |
10.12987/9780300255690 |
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