Table of Contents:
Carolyn Wilberger, Peter the great: an eighteenth-century hero of our times?
I. Background to debate: Peter the great and his French interpreters, 1700-1762
II. Voltaire versus Rousseau
III. The View from France
IV. The View from Russia
William R. Womack, Eighteenth-century themes in the Histoire philosophique et politique des deux Indes of Guillame Raynal
I. Introduction
II. Anti-colonialism
III. Slavery
IV. Government
V. Economics
VI. Religion
VII. Noble savage
VIII. Nature
IX. Conclusion
Select bibliography