Trading Places. Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture, Paperback

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two familiar aspects of Enlightenment thought: Orientalism and fascination with Amerindian cultures.

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Author(s): Madeleine Dobie
• Illustration(s): 18 halftones
• Number of pages: 352
• Publication date: 2010
• Dimensions: 157 x 276 x 22
• Cover type: Paperback / softback