9780804775229 - The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India von Ahmed, Siraj (3 Ergebnisse)

Gebunden. Zustand: New. By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capital argues that the Enlightenment s vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question, especially our premi.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same attention as nineteenth- and twentieth-century empires, it is the place where colonial rule and Enlightenment reason first became entwined. The Stillbirth of Capital makes its case by examining every work about British India written by a major author from 1670 to 1815, a period that coincides not only with the Enlightenment but also with the institution of a global economy.

Zustand: New. By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capital argues that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question, especially our premise that capitalism is the basis of modernity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 455. . 2011. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.