Contact, Conquest and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction: On ‘Doing Comparison’ – Practices of Comparing Part I Women, Marriage Practices, and Morals 1 Bridging the Gap: Jesuit Missionaries’ Perspectives on Marriage in the Philippines in the Period of Contact 2 Constructing the Literati: The Jesuits’ Attempt to Understand China’s Confucian Elite by Dint of Comparison 3 ‘Our’ Women, ‘Their’ Women: Domestic Space and the Question of Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Colonial India Part II Politics, Polemics, and Propaganda 4 Entre Nos: Comparison and Authority in the Epistolary of Antonio Valeriano 5 Global Benchmarks of Princely Rule in the Early Eighteenth Century? Transcultural Comparison in the Political Series of the German Publisher Renger (1704–1718) 6 Spain and Its North-African ‘Other’: Ambivalent Practices of Comparing in the Context of Modern Spanish Colonialism Around 1860 7 Propaganda, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Politics of Comparison in the Early Cold War, 1945 to the 1960s Part III Literature, Science, and Literary Discourse 8 Same Sky, Different Soil: Geographical Difference in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy and Its Impact on Literature 9 Between Nature and Culture: Comparing, Natural History, and Anthropology in Modern French Travel Narratives Around 1800 (François-René de Chateaubriand) 10 Comparison as Context in Sir William Jones’s Translations of Eastern Literature Part IV Race, Civilization, and Religion 11 Colonizing Complexions: How Laws of Bondage Shaped Race in America’s Colonial Borderlands 12 Tocqueville’s Compass: On History, Race, and Comparison in A Fortnight in the Wilds 13 Climates, Colonialism, and the Politics of Comparison: The Construction of U.S.-American Tropicality in Colonial Medicine and Public Health, 1898–1912 14 Between ‘Cannibals’ and ‘Natural Freemasons’: The (Anti)Colonial History of Comparing Freemasonry to African Secret Societies Concluding Observations: Modes of Comparing and Communities of Practice Index