Hating Empire Properly: The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism 0823251810, 9780823251810

The Limits of Matter: Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment 9780226195049

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and

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Rousseau and Voltaire: The Lives of the Two Most Famous Intellectuals of the Enlightenment

*Includes pictures *Analyzes both men's lives and most famous works *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for furt

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Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957 9780801471711

During World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence move

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Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829 1783272813, 9781783272815

Over the long eighteenth century, thousands of men and women from the English provinces lived and worked in the East Ind

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Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism 9780822371748, 082237174X

Following the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted t

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Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism 9780822371748

Christopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how

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The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire 1784531448, 9781784531447

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of cours

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The tropics of empire: why Columbus sailed south to the Indies 9780262232647

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The tropics of empire, why Columbus sailed south to the Indies 9780262232647, 2007020947

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The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire 9781350988958, 9781786730879

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of cours

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