Racial Capitalism in Voltaire's Enlightenment
| cam.depositDate | 2022-06-17 | |
| cam.issuedOnline | 2022-09-07 | |
| cam.orpheus.counter | 12 | |
| cam.orpheus.success | Mon Sep 26 08:22:25 BST 2022 - Embargo updated | |
| dc.contributor.author | Giovannetti-Singh, G | |
| dc.contributor.orcid | Giovannetti-Singh, G [0000-0003-3752-6359] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-20T16:17:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-20T16:17:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-06-17T14:32:29Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This essay argues that the concept of ‘racial capitalism’ can help us understand the connections between seemingly disparate parts of Voltaire’s extensive corpus of work. It contends that even though the Enlightenment’s racial politics abounded with contradictions and ambivalences, Voltaire stood out from his contemporaries. While the connections between his polygenism – the theory that humans of different races were created separately – and material investments in colonial commerce have long been debated by radical historians, this essay suggests that Voltaire’s views about race’s relationship to labour were transformed by France’s colonial losses during the Seven Years’ War.</jats:p> | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.85648 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1477-4569 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1363-3554 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/338236 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of History and Philosophy of Science | |
| dc.publisher.url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbac025 | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
| dc.subject | Voltaire | |
| dc.subject | racial capitalism | |
| dc.subject | Enlightenment | |
| dc.subject | race | |
| dc.subject | orientalism | |
| dc.subject | slavery | |
| dc.title | Racial Capitalism in Voltaire's Enlightenment | |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2022-06-17 | |
| prism.publicationName | History Workshop Journal | |
| pubs.licence-display-name | Apollo Repository Deposit Licence Agreement | |
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| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
| rioxxterms.version | AM | |
| rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1093/hwj/dbac025 |
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