Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Prologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity xv
6. Introduction: Companies, Colonies, and Their Critics 1
7. PART I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment
8. 1 Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot’s Thought 23
9. 2 On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes 46
10. PART II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique
11. 3 Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest 69
12. 4 Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: Fearing the Enlightenment and Colonial Modernity 109
13. 5 Atlantic Revolutions and Their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke’s Asia Writings 133
14. Epilogue. Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at Its Limit 177
15. Notes 191
16. Bibliography 249
17. Index 267