Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a
world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism
from a global perspective. Frequently reprinted and translated into
many languages, its readers included statesmen, historians,
philosophers and writers throughout Europe and North America.
Underpinning the encyclopedic scope of the work was an extensive
transnational network of correspondents and informants assiduously
cultivated by Raynal to obtain the latest expert knowledge. How
these networks shaped Raynal's writing and what they reveal about
eighteenth-century intellectual sociability, trade and global
interaction is the driving theme of this current volume. From
text-based analyses of the anthropology that structures Raynal's
history of human society to articles that examine new archival
material relating to his use of written and oral sources,
contributors to this book explore among other topics: how the
Histoire created a forum for intellectual interaction and
collaboration; how Raynal created and manipulated his own image as
a friend to humanity as a promotional strategy; Raynal's
intellectual debts to contemporary economic theorists; the
transnational associations of booksellers involved in marketing the
Histoire; the Histoire's reception across Europe and North America
and its long-lasting influence on colonial historiography and
political debate well into the nineteenth century.
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