The Histoire des Deux Indes is a crucial observatory for understanding how late French Enlightenment dealt with China in terms not anymore of a political and social myth, but as a problem. Diderot's contributions are partiocularly relevanto to clarify in which sense China was a problem in a global history in the eyes of the leading French Enlightenment thinkers.

The Despotism of the Plough, Throne and Tradition: Commercial Enlightenment and China in the Histoire des Deux Indes

Abbattista G
2018-01-01

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The Histoire des Deux Indes is a crucial observatory for understanding how late French Enlightenment dealt with China in terms not anymore of a political and social myth, but as a problem. Diderot's contributions are partiocularly relevanto to clarify in which sense China was a problem in a global history in the eyes of the leading French Enlightenment thinkers.
2018
9785020401372
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