The Global Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-JUL-05

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The Global Eighteenth Century. Ed. by FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xiv+385 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6865-3.

It has recently been suggested in some academic circles that contemporary sensitivity to issues of globalization and its implications has led critics to an anachronistic projection of such anxieties onto a period stretching from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and an equally anachronistic layering of postcolonial approaches upon pre-colonial cultures and material. This preoccupation with early global imaginings and manifestations has certainly produced a wealth...

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