Tag: Enlightened

Free Download David Allen Harvey, "Tropical Despotisms: Enlightened Reform in the French Caribbean"
English | ISBN: 1501776673 | 2024 | 306 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Tropical Despotisms reveals the alarm that spread among France’s Caribbean possessions during the period between the Seven Years’ War and the Revolution and the determination to cultivate a new patriotic community rooted in the Enlightenment principles of honor and civic virtue.

Free Download Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032835729 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism of empire.

Free Download Nicole von Germeten, "The Enlightened Patrolman: Early Law Enforcement in Mexico City "
English | ISBN: 1496233077 | 2022 | 350 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 8 MB
When late eighteenth-century New Spanish viceregal administrators installed public lamps in the streets of central Mexico City, they illuminated the bodies of Indigenous, Afro-descended, and plebeian Spanish urbanites. The urban patrolmen, known as guarda faroleros, or "lantern guards," maintained the streetlamps and attempted to clear the streets of plebeian sexuality, embodiment, and sociability, all while enforcing late colonial racial policies amid frequent violent resistance from the populace.

Free Download Nicholas Guyatt, "Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation"
English | 2016 | pages: 416 | ISBN: 0465018416 | EPUB | 12,2 mb
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their philosophy faltered when it came to the practical work of forging a color-blind society. Unable to convince others-and themselves-that racial mixing was viable, white reformers began instead to claim that people of color could only thrive in separate republics: in Native states in the American West or in the West African colony of Liberia.