Journal•ISSN: 0193-5380
The Eighteenth Century
University of Pennsylvania Press
About: The Eighteenth Century is an academic journal published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Politics & Protestantism. It has an ISSN identifier of 0193-5380. Over the lifetime, 5140 publications have been published receiving 71410 citations. The journal is also known as: Eighteenth century theory and interpretation & 18th century theory and interpretation.
Topics: Politics, Protestantism, Poetry, Drama, Humanism
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TL;DR: In this article, the look of age and the benefits and burdens of the past are discussed in the context of anachronism and changing the past in an attempt to understand how we know the past.
Abstract: List of illustrations Introduction Part I. Wanting The Past: 1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares 2. Benefits and burdens of the past 3. Ancients vs. moderns 4. The look of age Part II. Knowing The Past: 5. How we know the past Part III. Changing The Past: 6. Changing the past 7. Creative anachronism Bibliography and citation index General index.
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TL;DR: Hulme's detailed analyses of these stories bring to light the techniques used to produce within colonial discourse a ''savagery'' that could be denied the right to possess in law the land that it cultivated as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Europe encountered America in 1492, a meeting of cultures graphically described in the log-book kept by Christopher Columbus. His stories of peaceful savages and cruel \"cannibals\" have formed the matrix for all subsequent descriptions of that native Caribbean society. The encounter itself has obsesssed colonialist writing. It reappears in the early 17th century in the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, and on the Jacobean stage in the figures of Prospero and Caliban. In the 18th century, over two hundred years after the European discovery of the Caribbean, the idea of a pristine encounter still permeated European literature through Robinson Crusoe's emblematic rescue of the Carib he called Friday. The last version - the enormously popular tale of Inkle and Yarico - was contemporary with the final military defeat of the remaining native Caribbeans in the 1790s. Peter Hulme's detailed analyses of these stories bring to light the techniques used to produce within colonial discourse a \"savagery\", that could be denied the right to possess in law the land that it cultivated. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the fields of Renaissance, 18th-century literature and post-colonial criticism.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the military revolution revisited and the "military revolution" abroad is discussed, and a list of illustrations of the military revolutions is given. But this list is not exhaustive.
Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The military revolution revisited 2. Supplying war 3. Victory at sea 4. The 'military revolution' abroad 5. Beyond the revolution Afterword Notes Bibliographical guide Index.
479 citations