Raynal's histoire des deux Indes'
Subtitle: colonialism, networks and global exchange
By: edited by Cecil Courtney and Jenny Mander
Series: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2015:10; Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2015:10.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780729411691
Subjects: Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (Raynal, abbé)
Description: Histoire des deux Indes, was arguably the first major example of a world history, exploring the ramifications of European colonialism from a global perspective. Underpinning the encyclopedic scope of the work was an extensive transnational network of correspondents and informants assiduously cultivated by Raynal to obtain the latest expert knowledge. How these networks shaped Raynal's writing and what they reveal about eighteenth-century intellectual sociability, trade and global interaction is the driving theme of this current volume.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributions in English and French.