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The stillbirth of capital Enlightenment writing and colonial India
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Title
The stillbirth of capital [electronic resource] : Enlightenment writing and colonial India / Siraj Ahmed.
ISBN
0804778116 (electronic bk.)
9780804778114 (electronic bk.)
9780804775229 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0804775222 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780804775236 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0804775230 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Published
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 291 pages.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-280) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India
Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna
Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton
Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob
Free trade and famine: the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay'
Nation and addiction: Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment
Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones
History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
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