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It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in  \nOxford New York  \nAuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto  \nWith offices in  \nArgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore  \nSouth Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries  \nPublished in the United States  \nby Oxford University Press Inc., New York  \n\\# The several contributors  \nThe moral rights of the authors have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published 2009  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press,  \nor as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above  \nYou must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available  \nTypeset by SPI Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain  \non acid-free paper by  \nBiddles Ltd, King’s Lynn, Norfolk ISBN 978–0–19–922914–7  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nOver the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and light. This volume brings together two arenas eighteenth century studies and postcolonial theory in order to interrogate the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of these imperial projects.  \nThe conversations that resulted in this volume began at a conference held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in Los Angeles. We are grateful to Peter Reill, director of the UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, for his enthusiasm, encouragement, and generous sponsorship of the event, and to Doris L. Garraway and Sven Trakul hun, with whom we jointly organized the conference. We also want to express our gratitude to staff of the Center and Library, especially Candis Snoddy, Anna Huang, and Marina Romani. Prior to this, our initial encounters and discussions occurred in the context of the International Seminar on the Eighteenth Century, for which we wish to thank Byron Wells and Philip Stewart, who brought us together, and to Vicki Cutting at the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.  \nAt Oxford University Press we have been fortunate to work with Andrew McNeillie and Jacqueline Baker, who have provided wonderful editorial support. We want to thank our production editor, Fiona Vlemmiks, our copy editor, Fiona Little, and our indexer, Tom Broughton Willett, whose diligence and care have been enormous.  \nOur debts to friends, colleagues, institutions, and funding bodies are many. 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