Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900

Preface; A.Pagden Introduction; B.Rajan & E.Sauer PART 1: PORTUGAL, ITALY, INDIAN AND TRAVEL NARRATIVES Early Modern Portuguese and Italian Travel Narratives; D.Figueira 'A Nao Vem Bem Carregada?': Cuckoldry and Colonialism in Gil Vicente's Auto da India; S.Raman PART 2: EUROPEAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT IMPERIALISMS Spanish Lessons: Spenser and the Irish Moriscos; B.Fuchs 'Avenge, O Lord, thy Slaughter'd Saints': Theatres of Christianization in Early Modern Europe; E.Sauer PART 3: THE NEAR EAST, AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST The Empire as Composite: The Ottoman Polity and the Imperial Typology; D.Goffman The Conquest of the African Paradise: The Displacement, and the Workings of Satire; R.Markley Colonial Benedictions: Worldy Catholics and Secular Priests in French Indochina; P.Pelley PART 4: ENGLAND, INDIA, THE NETHERLANDS England in Moghul India; P.Stevens The British and the Dutch in India (1750-1799); F.D'Souza PART 5: ENGLAND, FRANCE 'English' and French Imperial Designs in Canada and in a Larger Context; J.Hart Volney's the Ruins of Empire and British and French Imperialisms; S.Makdisi Displacement and Anxiety: Empire and Opera; L.Hutcheon & M.Hutcheon PART 6: GERMAN IMPERIAL PHILOSOPHIES AND PRACTICES Inventing the Orient: The Discursive Alliance Between Philosopher, Historian, and Fiction Writer; K.P.Murti The Colonial Pedagogy of Imperial Germany: An Exercise in Masochism; S.Wilke Afterword: The Other End of History; B.Rajan