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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews‘The broad range of scholarship here will guide many experienced researchers to the volume, in search of particular essays, or clusters of essays on specific research questions or focal areas. The same breadth may recommend the entire volume to teachers keen to show their students that transnational history of colonialism is a thriving interdisciplinary field in which much exciting work remains to be done.’
‘Adopting multi-disciplinary approaches, contributors stress the complexity, subtlety and intricacy of the remarkable global connections between India and Europe in the eighteenth century. It will undoubtedly provoke not only lively debate, but also much further research.
The BARS Review'[This book] offers an interesting insight into the ad hoc nature of empire-building and the polyvalent nature of orientalist production that invites further reflection into the complexity of European colonial history.'
French studies‘Ces récits, par leur fraîcheur et leur couleur ne manquèrent pas d’impressionner l’imaginaire collectif.’
Académie des sciences d’outre-mer : les récensions de l’AcadémieTable of ContentsDaniel Sanjiv Roberts, Introduction
Anthony Strugnell, A view from afar: India in Raynal’s
Histoire des deux IndesClaire Gallien, British orientalism, Indo-Persian historiography and the politics of global knowledge
Javed Majeed, Globalising the Goths: ‘The siren shores of Oriental literature’ in John Richardson’s
A Dictionary of Persian, Arabic, and English (1777-1780)
Deirdre Coleman, ‘Voyage of conception’: John Keats and India
Sonja Lawrenson, ‘The country chosen of my heart’: the comic cosmopolitanism of
The Orientalist, or, electioneering in Ireland, a tale, by myselfDaniel Sanjiv Roberts, Orientalism and ‘textual attitude’: Bernier’s appropriation by Southey and Owenson
Felicia Gottmann, Intellectual history as global history: Voltaire’s
Fragments sur l’Inde and the problem of enlightened commerce
James Watt, Fictions of commercial empire, 1774-1782
Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa, The Spanish translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's
La Chaumière indienne: its fortunes and significance in a country divided by ideology, politics and war
John McAleer, Displaying its wares: material culture, the East India Company and British encounters with India in the long eighteenth century
Mogens R. Nissen, The Danish Asiatic Company: colonial expansion and commercial interests
Lakshmi Subramanian, Whose pirate? Reflections on state power and predation on India’s western littoral
Florence D’Souza, A comparative study of English and French views of pre-colonial Surat
Seema Alavi, The Mughal decline and the emergence of new global connections in early modern India
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