The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815
Ashley L. Cohen
Abstract
This book is a study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy. The book weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, the book traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. It also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metr ... More
Keywords: British imperialism, India, Atlantic world, imaginative geography, race, slavery, class, Indies, colonial policies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300239973 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: May 2021 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300239973.001.0001 |
