Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804

by Srinivas Aravamudan and Aravamudan

Book Overview

In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency-or the capacity to resist domination-of those oppressed. Aravamudan's analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution reveals the development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082232315X
• ISBN13: 9780822323150
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"