Four The Geography of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction The Indies Mentality 1
4. Prelude A Trip to Vauxhall: The Two Indies in the Fashionable World 27
5. One Diagnosing the (American) Crisis in Foote’s The Cozeners and Burney’s Evelina 33
6. Two A Black British Racial Formation: Julius Soubise in London and Calcutta 78
7. Three Political Slavery and Oriental Despotism from Haiti to Bengal 119
8. Four The Geography of Freedom in the Age of Revolutions 144
9. Five A Sociable and Aristocratic Empire: Lady Nugent’s East and West India Journals 189
10. Coda Colonial Mentalities, Postcolonial Epistemologies 226
11. Notes 233
12. Bibliography 261
13. Acknowledgments 287
14. Index 293