Enlightened Colonialism

1. Introduction
Damien Tricoire

Part I. The Invention of the Enlightenment and the Return of Assimilationist Policy

2. The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-Colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-Century France
Damien Tricoire

3. Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar
Damien Tricoire

Part II. From Civilizing to Assimilationist Policy

4. Portuguese Indigenous Policy and Indigenous Politics in the Age of Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Native Identities
Maria Regina Celestino Almeida

5. New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, Late Eighteenth Century)
Lía Quarleri

Part III. The Invention of Intra-European Colonialism

6. Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire
Ricarda Vulpius

7. Creating Differences for Integration: Enlightened Reforms and Civilizing Missions in the Eastern European Possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (1750–1815)
Klemens Kaps

Part IV. Towards Civilizing Policy in the British Empire

8. “Gradually Reclaiming Them from a State of Barbarism”: Emergence of and Ambivalence in the Aboriginal Civilization Project in Canada (1815–1857)
Alain Beaulieu

9. Europe in an Indian Mirror: Comparing Conceptions of Civil Government in Abu Taleb’s Travels (1810)
Sven Trakulhun

Part V. Civilization, Racial Order, and Slavery

10. Jean-François de Saint-Lambert and His Moral conte “Ziméo” (1769) in the Context of Abolitionist and Imperial Activities
Anja Bandau

11. Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism
Trevor Burnard

12. France, the Abolition of Slavery, and Abolitionisms in the Eighteenth Century
Matthias Middell

13. Colonial Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Julien Raymond and Milscent Créole
Jeremy D. Popkin

14. Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Colonization, and the African Origins of Civilization in Postrevolutionary Haitian Writing
Doris L. Garraway

Avainsanat: History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, Intellectual Studies