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Book SynopsisThe economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: The Supplementation of Imperial Sovereignty
Part I: Ethnographic Acts
Chapter 1. Empire's Vicious Expenses: Samuel Foote's The Nabob and the Credit Crisis of 1772
Chapter 2. "As Much as Science Can Approach Barbarity" Pantomimical Ethnography in Omai; or, A Trip round the World
Part II: Women and the Trials of Imperial Masculinity
Chapter 3. Inchbald's Indies: Meditations on Despotism circa 1784
Chapter 4. The Raree Show of Impeachment
Chapter 5. Molière's Old Woman: Judging and Being Judged with Frances Burney
Part III: A Theatre of Perpetual War
Chapter 6. Starke Reforms: Martial Masculinity and the Perils of Indianization
Chapter 7. War and Precinema: Tipu Sultan and the Allure of Mechanical Display
Afterword: Recreational Alterity
Notes
Index
