书目名称 | Enlightened Colonialism | 副标题 | Civilization Narrati | 编辑 | Damien Tricoire | 视频video | | 概述 | Expands the debate on whether Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism by exploring political and social practices.Brings together studies about the overseas | 丛书名称 | Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents, their narratives of progress, and their political aims and strategies, it asks whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new colonialism between 1760 and 1820.. .Has Enlightenment provided the cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For decades, historians of political thought, philosophy, and literature have debated this question. On one side, many postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped delegitimize non-European cultures. On the other side, some historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at least some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have been “anti-colonialists”. Surprisingly enough, both sides have focused on literary and philosophical texts, but have rarely taken political and social practice into account.. | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | 关键词 | Colonial politics; Imperialism; Foreign Office; Assimilation; British Empire | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85361-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-54280-5Series ISSN 2635-1633 Series E-ISSN 2635-1641 | issn_series | 2635-1633 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |
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