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The global Indies : British imperial culture and the reshaping of the world, 1756-1815 / Ashley L. Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Ashley L., author.
- Series:
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
- Yale scholarship online.
- The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- Yale scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism in popular culture--Great Britain--18th century.
- Imperialism in popular culture.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.) : 17 b-w illus.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction The Indies Mentality
- Prelude A Trip to Vauxhall: The Two Indies in the Fashionable World
- One Diagnosing the (American) Crisis in Foote’s The Cozeners and Burney’s Evelina
- Two A Black British Racial Formation: Julius Soubise in London and Calcutta
- Three Political Slavery and Oriental Despotism from Haiti to Bengal
- Four The Geography of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions
- Five A Sociable and Aristocratic Empire: Lady Nugent’s East and West India Journals
- Coda Colonial Mentalities, Postcolonial Epistemologies
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-300-25569-1
- OCLC:
- 1226064183
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