Civilisation and Colonisation: Enlightenment Theories in the Debate between Diderot and Raynal

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Autore

Girolamo Imbruglia

Data

Ottobre 3, 2015

Tipo

Journal Article

Author

Girolamo Imbruglia

Tipo documento

Journal Article

DOI

10.1080/01916599.2015.1016316

ISSN

0191-6599

Abstract Note

The Enlightened theory of civilisation was expressed through the formula of ‘doux commerce’, a form of commerce which acknowledged the need for the European conquest of non-European lands and nations, and the opportunity to bring European civilisation to other peoples without violence. Montesquieu was the first to express this idea, condemning the Spanish conquest and empire. In the Histoire des deux Indes, this idea was dramatically discussed: Raynal wanted to defend it; Diderot dismantled this project showing that civilisation was but the mask of violent conquest. In this way the latter offered an extraordinary refutation of both Enlightened ideology and its strategy of civilisation.

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2016-06-28 22:29:25

Data

Ottobre 3, 2015

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Issue

Library Catalog

Taylor and Francis+NEJM

Pagine

858-882

Publication Title

History of European Ideas

Short Title

Civilisation and Colonisation

Titolo

Civilisation and Colonisation: Enlightenment Theories in the Debate between Diderot and Raynal

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2015.1016316

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BIbliografia Colonizzazioni interne

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Girolamo Imbruglia, “Civilisation and Colonisation: Enlightenment Theories in the Debate between Diderot and Raynal,” Colonizzazioni Interne e Migrazioni, accesso il 27 aprile 2025, http://storia.dh.unica.it/risorse_omc/items/show/787.

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