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Civilisation and Colonisation: Enlightenment Theories in the Debate between Diderot and Raynal (2015)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Buchan, Bruce
Wolloch, Nathaniel
Lloyd, Henry Martyn
Missé, Blanca
Combe, Thomas
Veres, Madalina Valeria
Concepts
Moral philosophy
Colonialism
Natural history
Spain, colonies
Philosophy
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Time Periods
Enlightenment
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Scotland
Latin America
France
Great Britain
Tahiti
Peru
Institutions
Habsburg, House of
Royal Society of London
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