Imperialisms

ELIZABETH SAUER is Professor of English and holds a Chancellor's Research Chair at Brock University, Canada.BALACHANDRA RAJAN is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is also an Honored Scholar of the Milton Society and a Fellow and Medallist of the Royal Society of Canada.

• Preface; A.Pagden Introduction; B.Rajan & E.Sauer PART 1: PORTUGAL, ITALY, INDIAN AND TRAVEL NARRATIVES Early Modern Portuguese and Italian Travel Narratives; D.Figueira 'A Nao Vem Bem Carregada?': Cuckoldry and Colonialism in Gil Vicente's Auto da India; S.Raman PART 2: EUROPEAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT IMPERIALISMS Spanish Lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos; B.Fuchs 'Avenge, O Lord, thy Slaughter'd Saints': Theatres of Christianization in Early Modern Europe; E.Sauer PART 3: THE NEAR EAST, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST The Empire as Composite: The Ottoman Polity and the Imperial Typology; D.Goffman The Conquest of the African Paradise: The Displacement, and the Workings of Satire; R.Markley Colonial Benedictions: Worldy Catholics and Secular Priests in French Indochina; P.Pelley PART 4: ENGLAND, INDIA, THE NETHERLANDS England in Moghul India; P.Stevens The British and the Dutch in India (1750-1799); F.D'Souza PART 5: ENGLAND, FRANCE 'English' and French Imperial Designs in Canada and in a Larger Context; J.Hart Volney's the Ruins of Empire and British and French Imperialisms; S.Makdisi Displacement and Anxiety: Empire and Opera; L.Hutcheon & M.Hutcheon PART 6: GERMAN IMPERIAL PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTICES Inventing the Orient: The Discursive Alliance Between Philosopher, Historian, and Fiction Writer; K.P.Murti The Colonial Pedagogy of Imperial Germany: An Exercise in Masochism; S.Wilke Afterword: The Other End of History; B.Rajan

"This diverse and stimulating collection of essays throws a fresh light on the multiple sites of imperialism's reach from the early modern period to 1900. The focus on comparative imperialisms illuminates the crucial distinctions among both European and Asian imperial powers, while also tracking similar strategies of dominance and control. A valuable resource for all those interested in a long-range view of imperial developments." - Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University, author of Outside the Fold: Conversion, Modernity, and Belief "Our anxious moment of global achievement has ushered in a new age of the politics and poetics of Empire. This complex and contested term represents a crucial turn in revisionary thinking that is nowhere better explored - with greater critical acuity and more creative panache - than in Rajan and Sauer's volume. They have inspired their gifted contributors to engage with the diverse discourses and domains of the Imperial imagination and the result is a collective achievement of great distinction that enables us to frame the troubled Empire of our times with the history that it both needs and deserves." - Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg Professor of English, Harvard University "As the field of postcolonial studies has deepened and matured, scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences have begun to acknowledge the need for complementary investigations in the historical varieties of imperial discourse and practice. Comparative imperialisms: Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer have commissioned an exemplary series of essays in just this cross-disciplinary field. This volume brings together the work of leading scholars in half a dozen national literatures, in cultural history, in music, in political science; its purview extends over four hundred years and, significantly, to the Asian as well as the European and transAtlantic theatres of empire. It will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in the intersecting force fields of mercantilist, colonial, and religious ambition; the reciprocal ideologies of nationalism and modern empire; and the emergent discourses of race, modernity, competing conversions, and profit." - Linda Gregerson, Frederick G. L. Heutwell Professor of English, University of Michigan, and author of The Reformation of the Subject