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Interpreting Colonialism (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Interpreting Colonialism (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:09
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This volume has its origins in an international seminar where
eighteen scholars representing a number of academic fields were
invited to consider the eighteenth-century colonial enterprise from
a more global and interdisciplinary perspective. Among the issues
that arose then, and that are more fully elaborated here, are: the
nature and goals of the many colonial expeditions that were
undertaken at the time; the manners and means in which these were
carried out; the differences between them; and the similarities
that they shared. Relying on a variety of sources that include
historical archives, literary texts, travel journals, visual and
material artefacts and critical studies, the authors explore
eighteenth-century colonialism as it was practised and manifested
around the world: Europe, Africa, the Americas, the South Pacific,
and Asia. What emerges from their essays is the image of a
Eurocentric practice with global implications whose themes, despite
the diversity existing among the preponderant colonial powers, were
oft repeated. As a result, the essays presented here are grouped
into four sub-headings - Representations, Mercantilism, Religion
and ideology, and Slavery - each of which is integral to an
understanding of colonial and post-colonial theories and of their
respective consequences and interpretations. The motives of
colonisers, as well as their critics, were both multiple and shared
during the eighteenth century. These engendered complex sets of
arguments - philosophical, political, economic, and social - which
the contributors to this volume examine in detail in such disparate
geo-political areas as Mexico and Thailand, Senegal and China.
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