Hating empire properly: the two Indies and the limits of Enlightenment anticolonialism

Prologue: Enlightenment, colonialism, modernity

Introduction: companies, colonies, and their critics

Part I: Denis Diderot: the two Indies of the French Enlightenment. 1. Doux commerce, douce colonisation: consensual colonialism in Diderot's thought ; 2. On the use and abuse of anger for life: Ressentiment and revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes

Part II: Edmund Burke: political analogy and Enlightenment critique. 3. Between France and India in 1790: custom and arithmetic reason in a country of conquest ; 4. Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament: fearing the Enlightenment and colonial modernity ; 5. Atlantic revolutions and their Indian echoes: the place of America in Burke's Asia writings: Reflections on the revolution in St. Domingue/Haiti, Compensation in the East, or, From Virginia to Hindostan

Epilogue. Hating empire properly: European anticolonialism at its limit.