Enlightened Colonialism

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-Colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-Century France

Chapter 3 Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar

Chapter 4 Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Native Identities

Chapter 5 New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, Late Eighteenth Century)

Chapter 6 Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire

Chapter 7 Creating Differences for Integration: Enlightened Reforms and Civilizing Missions in the Eastern European Possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (1750–1815)

Chapter 8 “Gradually Reclaiming Them from a State of Barbarism”: Emergence of and Ambivalence in the Aboriginal Civilization Project in Canada (1815–1857)

Chapter 9 Europe in an Indian Mirror: Comparing Conceptions of Civil Government in Abu Taleb’s Travels (1810)

Chapter 10 Jean-François de Saint-Lambert and His Moral conte “Ziméo” (1769) in the Context of Abolitionist and Imperial Activities

Chapter 11 Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism

Chapter 12 France, the Abolition of Slavery, and Abolitionisms in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 13 Colonial Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Julien Raymond and Milscent Créole

Chapter 14 Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Colonization, and the African Origins of Civilization in Postrevolutionary Haitian Writing