Raynal, Un regard vers l'Amérique.
Grandjouan, Kate (2013) Raynal, Un regard vers l'Amérique. BSECS.
Abstract
A review of an exhibition organised by the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris and devoted to the Abbé Raynal (1713-1796), French historian, journalist and 'philosophe' who was famous in his lifetime as the author of the 'Histoire des Deux Indes', one of the most successful and influential of the 'encyclopédiste' texts. This 'Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les Deux Indes' (to give the book its full title) offered a multi-volume history of European trade with the East and West Indies. The text was initially published anonymously in 1770. A second extended edition appeared in 1774, and a third in 1780. Its geographical scope extended eastwards as far as Japan, China, India, Sumatra and Borneo and westwards to Mexico, Chile and Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and the Caribbean islands. The last volume dealt specifically with French and British colonies in North America.
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