India and Europe in the global eighteenth century

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The work India and Europe in the global eighteenth century represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

India and Europe in the global eighteenth century

Statement of responsibility

edited by, Simon Davies, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, and Gabriel Sánchez Espinosa

Creator

• Davies, Simon, (Simon F)

Contributor

• Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv
• Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel, 1961-

Editor

• Davies, Simon, (Simon F)
• Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv
• Sánchez Espinosa, Gabriel, 1961-

Subject

• Europe -- Foreign relations -- India
• Imperialism -- Social aspects -- India -- History -- 18th century
• India -- Colonization | History -- 18th century
• India -- Colonization | Social aspects | History
• India -- Foreign relations -- 18th century
• India -- Foreign relations -- Europe
• Intercultural communication -- India -- History -- 18th century
• Europe -- Foreign relations -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

The long eighteenth century was a period of major transformation for Europe and India as imperialism heralded a new global order. Eschewing the reductive perspectives of nation-state histories and postcolonial 'east vs west' oppositions, contributors to India and Europe in the global eighteenth century put forward a more nuanced and interdisciplinary analysis. Using eastern as well as western sources, authors present fresh insights into European and Indian relations and highlight: how anxieties over war and piracy shaped commercial activity; how French, British and Persian histories of India reveal the different geo-political issues at stake; the material legacy of India in European cultural life; how novels parodied popular views of the Orient and provided counter-narratives to images of India as the site of corruption; how social transformations, traditionally characterised as 'Mughal decline', in effect forged new global connections that informed political culture into the nineteenth century --

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• Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment

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UKMGB

Dewey number

303.482540409033

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment