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Histoire des deux Indes

1770 encyclopaedia

The Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, more often known simply as Histoire des deux Indes, is an encyclopaedia on commerce between Europe and the Far East, Africa, and the Americas. It was published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1770 and attributed to Abbot Guillaume Thomas Raynal.^[1] It achieved considerable popularity and went through numerous editions. The third edition, published in Geneva in 1780, was censored in France the following year.^[2]

The Histoire des deux Indes filled a public need for knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment, answering questions that preoccupied the minds of those in the late 18th century, around the time of the French Revolution.

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Raynal's idea was to write a history of European enterprises in the East Indies and the New World, having observed the influence of the great explorations on European civilisation.

The work first discusses the Portuguese and their oriental colonies, going on t

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Date: 2017

Type: Article

Global intellectual history, 2017, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 251-267

THOMSON, Ann, Colonialism, race and slavery in Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes, Global intellectual history, 2017, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 251-267 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/47747

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Abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal’s Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, generally known as the Histoire des deux Indes, one of the best-sellers of the Eighteenth Century, has frequently been characterized as an anticolonial work. This article shows instead its complexity and internal inconsistencies, explained in part by the context and manner of its composition and Raynal’s links to ministerial circles. It studies the work’s description of the African continent and European trade on the West coast and its treatment of explanations for the Africans’ skin colour, as well as Diderot’s famous denunciation of the slave trade, and a

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A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies

ISBN-13: 9780415383110 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 3008 str.

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Abbe Raynal s A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies is one of the great eighteenth-century histories. It attempts no less than an assessment of European settlement and colonization. The ideas contained within the work, and its savage indictment of slavery and European colonization, lead to its being banned by the French parliament. Despite the ban, the work proved enormously popular and it is of great significance as a key piece of democratic writing in the period leading up to the French Revolution. In making his assessment Raynal undertook a complete survey of trad