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Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes : colonialism, networks and global exchange


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Résumé

Ces contributions éclairent L'histoire des deux Indes, publiée sous la direction de l'abbé Raynal en 1770, qui dresse un tableau de la colonisation européenne entre la fin du XVe et la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Elles analysent notamment le contexte d'élaboration de l'oeuvre, sa réception ainsi que son influence sur l'historiographie coloniale. ©Electre 2024

Guillaume-Thomas Raynal's eighteenth-century bestseller, the Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism from a global perspective. Frequently reprinted and translated into many languages, its readers included statesmen, historians, philosophers and writers throughout Europe and North America. Underpinning the encyclopedic scope of the work was an extensive transnational network of correspondents and informants assiduously cultivated by Raynal to obtain the latest expert knowledge. How these networks shaped Raynal's writing and what they reveal about eighteenth-century intellectual sociability, trade and global interaction is the driving theme of this current volume.

From text-based analyses of the anthropology that structures Raynal's history of human society to articles that examine new archival material relating to his use of written and oral sources, contributors to this book explore among other topics :

  • how the Histoire created a forum for intellectual interaction and collaboration ;
  • how Raynal created and manipulated his own image as a friend to humanity as a promotional strategy ;
  • Raynal's intellectual debts to contemporary economic theorists ;
  • the transnational associations of booksellers involved in marketing the Histoire ;
  • the Histoire's reception across Europe and North America and its long-lasting influence on colonial historiography and political debate well into the nineteenth century.

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Paru le : 26/10/2015

Thématique : Histoire européenne générale

Auteur(s) : Non précisé.

Éditeur(s) : Voltaire Foundation

Collection(s) : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment

Contributeur(s) : Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Cecil Patrick Courtney - Editeur scientifique (ou intellectuel) : Jenny Mander

Série(s) : Non précisé.

ISBN : 978-0-7294-1169-1

EAN13 : 9780729411691

Reliure : Broché

Pages : XII-349

Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm


Épaisseur: 2.1 cm

Poids: 0 g