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The Stillbirth of Capital : Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
- Title
- The Stillbirth of Capital : Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India / Siraj Ahmed.
- Author
- Ahmed, Siraj Dean
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 291 pages; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the Enlightenment and colonial India -- Sovereignty and monopoly in Dryden's Amboyna -- Conversion and piracy in Defoe's Captain Singleton -- Sentiment and debt in Sterne's Bramine's Journal and Foote's Nabob -- Free trade and famine in the wealth of nations and Bentham's 'essay' -- Nation and addiction in Burke's and Sheridan's speeches in the Hastings impeachment -- Orientalism and the permanent fix of war : Voltaire contra Sir William Jones -- History, anachronism, violence : Morgan's Missionary and Scott's Guy Mannering.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-819
- ISBN
- 9780804775229 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0804775222 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804775236 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0804775230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011012292
- OCLC
- YBP 2011012292
- Author
- Ahmed, Siraj Dean, author.
- Title
- The Stillbirth of Capital : Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India / Siraj Ahmed.
- Imprint
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, ©2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-819