Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804

Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688–1804In 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 agencyor the capacity to resist dominationof those oppressed. Aravamudans analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution reveals the development of

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