Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity xv Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics 1 part i Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment 1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot’s Thought 23 2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes 46 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 69 4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity 109 5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke’s Asia Writings 133 (a) Reflections on the Revolution in St. Domingue/Haiti 133 (b) Compensation in the East, or, From Virginia to Hindostan 162 viii / contents Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit 177 Notes 191 Bibliography 249 Index 267 ...