Enlightenment against Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enlightenment against Empire write by Sankar Muthu. This book was released on 2009-01-10. Enlightenment against Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices. Muthu shows how such arguments enabled the era's anti-imperialists to defend the freedom of non-European peoples to order their own societies. In contrast to those who praise "the Enlightenment" as the triumph of a universal morality and critics who view it as an imperializing ideology that denigrated cultural pluralism, Muthu argues instead that eighteenth-century political thought included multiple Enlightenments. He reveals a distinctive and underappreciated strand of Enlightenment thinking that interweaves commitments to universal moral principles and incommensurable ways of life, and that links the concept of a shared human nature with the idea that humans are fundamentally diverse. Such an intellectual temperament, Muthu contends, can broaden our own perspectives about international justice and the relationship between human unity and diversity.
Religion, Enlightenment and Empire
Religion, Enlightenment and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Enlightenment and Empire write by Jessica Patterson. This book was released on 2021-12-16. Religion, Enlightenment and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores British interpretations of Hinduism at a crucial period in the East India Company's conquest of Bengal.
The Military Enlightenment
The Military Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Military Enlightenment write by Christy L. Pichichero. This book was released on 2017-11-15. The Military Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
Hating Empire Properly
Hating Empire Properly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hating Empire Properly write by Sunil M. Agnani. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Hating Empire Properly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.
Visible Empire
Visible Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visible Empire write by Daniela Bleichmar. This book was released on 2012-10-08. Visible Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.
