In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building

Explores British interpretations of Hinduism at a crucial period in the East India Company's conquest of Bengal.

Beginning with a survey of the origins and growth of 18th century rationalism, the author explains how the realization of the great philosophers' ideals in Euro

Discusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failu

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Carib