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The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
Siraj Ahmed
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Description for The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
Paperback. By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capital argues that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question, especially our premise that capitalism is the basis of modernity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 456.
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same attention as nineteenth- and twentieth-century empires, it is the place where colonial rule and Enlightenment reason first became entwined. The Stillbirth of Capital makes its case by examining every work about British India written by a major author from 1670 to 1815, a period that coincides not only with the ... Read more
This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's vision of empire calls our own historical and theoretical paradigms into question. While eighteenth-century British India has not received nearly the same attention as nineteenth- and twentieth-century empires, it is the place where colonial rule and Enlightenment reason first became entwined. The Stillbirth of Capital makes its case by examining every work about British India written by a major author from 1670 to 1815, a period that coincides not only with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
303
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804775236
SKU
V9780804775236
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About Siraj Ahmed
Siraj Ahmed is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Lehman College, City University of New York.
Reviews for The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India
"This is an original book that adopts a historical materialist approach in order to question dominant readings of Enlightenment ideas. Ahmed's research into Britain's economic activities in India and his engaging rereading of individual texts make this an indispensible book for scholars working in 18-century studies. His engagement with contemporary postcolonial criticism, moreover, and the book's revisionist approach, will be ... Read more