Colonial Exchanges : Political Theory and the Agency of the Colonized.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: when ideas travel: political theory, colonialism, and the history of ideas -- Parochial universalisms -- Engaged political theory -- Situating the volume -- An overview of the chapters -- Notes -- 1 Intellectual flows and counterflows: the strange case of J. S. Mill -- J. S. Mill's Einfühlung -- J. S. Mill and Rammohun Roy -- Conclusion: an unfinished project -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- 2 Rethinking resistance: Spencer, Krishnavarma, and The Indian Sociologist -- 1 Intellectual foundations -- 2 Moderates, extremists, and terrorists: Krishnavarma and the nationalist constellation -- (i) The 'unknown patriot' -- (ii) The nationalist constellation I: moderates -- (iii) The nationalist constellation II: extremists and terrorists -- 3 A state of violence: Spencer, sociology, and the sentimental foundations of empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The other Mahatma's naive monarchism: Phule, Paine, and the appeal to Queen Victoria -- Slaveries and conquests -- Paine in Phule's Indian context -- The British: better invaders? -- Supplication, sentimentality, and the Queen -- Between critique and catachresis -- Notes -- 4 The New World 'sans-culottes': French revolutionary ideology in Saint-Domingue -- The revolutions in Saint-Domingue and France -- How radical were the French revolutionaries? -- 1802, the fall of Charles Bélair and the rise of Dessalines -- Haiti and the problem of institutional teleology -- Notes -- 5 Confronting colonial otherness: the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the limits ... -- A hegemonic and contested universalism -- The universalist premise of the JCPC -- Justice, equity, and good conscience -- The limits of judicial universalism.

Universality, representation, and legitimacy -- Notes -- 6 The indigenous redemption of liberal universalism -- Christianity, liberalism, and racism -- Peter Jones 1802-53: gaining mastery over fate -- The challenge of 'Social Darwinism' -- Charles Eastman 1858-1939: the Indian renewed -- Warriors for empire and democracy: Apirana Ngata and Zitkala-Ša -- William Cooper: British Aborigines? -- Conclusion: the mobile signifiers of universality -- Notes -- 7 Troubling appropriations: Pedro Paterno's Filipino deployment of French Lamarckianism -- Ilustrados' worlds -- Paterno's ways of conceiving of civilization as successive eras -- Paterno's race thinking and its French antecedents -- Not ancestors, but specimens -- Conclusion: futures of the past -- Notes -- 8 Colonial hesitation, appropriation, and citation: Qāsim Amīn, empire, and saying 'no' -- Saying 'no' and colonised thought -- Theorising colonised reception -- The politics of audience and persuasion -- Defensive postures and blaming others: a Francophone audience -- Aggressive postures and aggression by nature: Cairo I -- Inventing Islam, disaggregating Europe: Cairo II -- Defensive frustration and transnational comparisons -- Terms of imitation and colonial hesitation: Cairo III -- Faith in progress, extinction, and colonialism: Cairo IV -- Colonised intellectuals and the gaze of the empire -- Cairene exchanges -- Reading Les Égyptiens in Europe, or, can the Muslim speak (of Islam)? -- The Liberation of Women: between silence and progress -- The Liberation of Women and The New Woman: between gospel and empire -- Shields and daggers of colonial orientalism -- Notes -- 9 Marxism and historicism in the thought of Abdullah Laroui -- The life and times of Abdullah Laroui -- The intellectual context of Laroui's intervention -- Identifying the problem: traditionalism and cultural retardation.

Towards a solution: anti-colonial historicism -- Bypassing liberalism -- Marxist historicism and the third-world intellectual -- By way of conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

When European powers colonised the globe, they spread not only political power but also ideas. Yet those within colonised societies did not receive those ideas passively. They instead sought to transform or repurpose them, often in surprising or ambiguous ways. This volume illustrates a variety of examples worthy of further study.

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