UNIVERSITY LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Trading places : colonization and slavery in eighteenth-century F rench culture /

Dobie, Madeleine.

Trading places : colonization and slavery in eighteenth-century F rench culture / Madeleine Dobie. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010. - xv, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-326) and index.

Part 1: East meets West -- Reorienting slavery -- Oriental veneers - - The "fabric of two worlds" -- Part 2: Savages and slaves -- The trope of colonial encounter -- Slaves and the Noble Savage -- Part 3: Libert y, equality, economy -- Colonial political economy -- Economic sentimen ts.

9780801449024 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780801476099 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2010-022630


French literature -- History and criticism.-- 18th century
Colonies in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Orientalism in literature.
Colonization -- Social aspects -- History -- France -- 18th century.
Slavery -- Social aspects -- History -- France -- 18th century.
Orientalism -- History -- France -- 18th century.
Material culture -- Social aspects -- History -- France -- 18th cent ury.


France -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.

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