Interpreting Colonialism

• IntroductionI. RepresentationsDriss Aissaoui, L’image de l’Autre dans le Journal de voyage de Robert ChalleFabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Prolégomènes à un anti-colonialisme futur: Histoire des deux Indes et Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville de DiderotMark Hinchman, The travelling portrait: women and representation in eighteenth-century SenegalOliver Berghof, Tahiti, 1767-1777: the view from the shoreSven Trakulhun, Lost history: 18th-century European travel literature and the writing of the Thai past of the Ayudhyan period (1350-1767)II. MercantilismNoelia González Adánez, From kingdoms to colonies: the enlightened idea of America in Charles III’s SpainGustavo L. Paz, Mules for the Indians: coerced consumption and domestic market in late colonial Spanish South AmericaTy M. Reese, Debating England’s African trade: mercantilism, free trade, and the world’s commodities at Cape Coast Castle, 1730-1780Eun Kyung Min, Narrating the Far East: commerce, civility, and ceremony in the Amherst Embassy to China, 1816-1817Siraj Ahmed, The power to lend money without extracting interest: renegade capitalism in late eighteenth-century British IndiaIII. Religion and ideologyDavid Eduardo Tavárez, Colonial evangelisation and native resistance: the interplay of native political autonomy and ritual practices in Villa Alta (New Spain), 1700-1704Ruth Hill, Casta as culture and the Sociedad de Castas as literatureDoris Garraway, Material bodies, spiritual worlds: ideologies of the occult and regimes of discipline in the colonial French CaribbeanEva M. Pérez, Encounters in sixteenth-century Europe: Jews, black slaves and despots in William Godwin’s Travels of St LeonIV. SlaveryDaniel Carey, Sugar, colonialism and the critique of slavery: Thomas Tryon in BarbadosLynn Festa, Tropes and chains: figures of exchange in eighteenth-century depictions of the slave tradeSarah Watson Parsons, The arts of abolition: race, representation, and British colonialism, 1768-1807Vera Lind, Privileged dependency on the edge of the Atlantic world: Africans and Germans in the eighteenth centuryList of works citedIndex

'The voyage across methodologies, histories, lands, and cultures will be as eye-opening yet bumpy as any such excursion around the colonial world must be. [...] Among the many virtues of the contributions is that they move well beyond schematic depictions of colonial power, taking various approaches to the dynamics of colonial relations and examining the agency, and even at times the complicity, of colonialized subjects. [...] Taken as a whole, the impressive undertaking may be considered under the rubric of “critical global studies”, as Felicity Nussbaum calls the project informing The Global Eighteenth Century (2003), a collection to which Interpreting Colonialism provides a welcome and worthy complement.'Eighteenth-Century Fiction