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1 online resource (569 pages) |
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Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Enlightenment and Colonial India; PART I: COMMERCE (1670-1760); 1. Sovereignty and Monopoly: Dryden's Amboyna; 2. Conversion and Piracy: Defoe's Captain Singleton; PART II: CONQUEST (1760-1790); 3. Sentiment and Debt: Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob; 4. Free Trade and Famine: The Wealth of Nations and Bentham's "Essay"; 5. Nation and Addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's Speeches in the Hastings Impeachment; PART III: PROGRESS (1790-1815). |
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6. Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War: Voltaire contra Sir William Jones7. History, Anachronism, Violence: Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same attention as nineteenth- and twentieth-century empires, it is the place where colonial rule and Enlightenment reason first became entwined. The Stillbirth of Capital makes its case by examining every work about British India written by a major author. |
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British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) |
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Colonies in literature.
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Colonies in literature. |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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18th century |
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Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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Asia. |
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History. |
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
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India -- In literature.
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India. |
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1700-1947 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Print version: Ahmed, Siraj. Stillbirth of Capital : Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2011 9780804775229 |
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9780804778114 (electronic book) |
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0804778116 (electronic book) |
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