Enlightened colonialism : civilization narratives and imperial politics in the Age of Reason /: civilization narratives and imperial politics in the Age of Reason. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Damien Tricoire, editor.
• Other Names: Tricoire, Damien, 1981-
• Contents: Enlightened Colonialism; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; The Enlightenment and Colonialism: The Debate; The Enlightenment Narrative and Imperial Actors: The Approach; Enlightened Colonialism: Some Conclusions; Notes; References; Part I The Invention of the Enlightenment and the Return of Assimilationist Policy; The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-Colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-Century France; France's Self-Colonization, the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, and the Origins of the Enlightenment Narrative. Voltaire's Synthesis of the "Ancient" and "Modern" ThesesThe Enlightenment and the Comeback of the Project to Civilize and Assimilate "Wild" and "Barbarous" Peoples; The Philosophes and the Politicians; Conclusion; Notes; References; Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar; Maudave and the Imaginary Colonization of Madagascar; Beňovský, or the Writing of a French Colonial Novel; Enlightened Silencing Through "Saming"; Was There an Enlightened Colonialism?; Notes; References; Part II From Civilizing to Assimilationist Policy. Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Native IdentitiesPombaline Reforms and Enlightenment; Indigenous Policy Under Pombal: Ruptures and Continuities; Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Politics: Negotiating Interests While Preserving Differences; Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Indigenous Identities in Colonial Indian Settlements; Final Considerations; Notes; References. New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, Late Eighteenth Century)Assimilation as a Transformation Utopia; Production, Trade, and Disputes Over the Resources of the Villages; Communal Liberation: Enlightened Progress or Territorial Expansion?; Notes; References; Part III The Invention of Intra-European Colonialism; Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire; Civilization Through Religion. The "Civilizing" of the Economy and Way of Life: Farming and DomesticationConclusion; Notes; References; Creating Differences for Integration: Enlightened Reforms and Civilizing Missions in the Eastern European Possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (1750-1815); Cameralist Reform and Social Progress: Categories and Taxonomies as Prerequisites for Building Hierarchies; From Cameralism to Orientalism: The Construction of the Habsburg East; The Creation of an Imperial Periphery: Galicia; Habsburg Enlightened Orientalism: From Social Reform to Ethnic Stereotypes; Final Considerations; Notes.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave MacMillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (319 pages)
• Subjects: 325.309; Imperialism -- History -- 18th century; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; World politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration; Imperialism; World politics; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319542805
• Related ISBNs: 331954280X; 3319542796; 9783319542799
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