Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. ...
This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the established colonial systems in Martinique and in India. The study is the first in either English or French to demonstrate that representations of power relations, as well as the broader discourses with which they were linked, were as closely concerned with probing the similarities and differences of rival European colonial systems as they were with reinforcing their imagined superiority over the colonized, and that such power relations should not...
This study interrogates how the French empire was imagined in three literary representations of French colonialism: the conquest of Tahiti, and the es...
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Britain.
Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. ...