David Allen Harvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Allen Harvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvey |
| SIGNATURE | HARVEY D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College of Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2571-6753 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble. By Malick Ghachem
The Chapuizet Affair
This article examines a 1779 legal dispute involving Pierre Chapuizet, a wealthy and well-connected sugar planter of the north province of Saint-Domingue who was denied a commission as an officer in the colonial militia due to allegations of mixed-race origin. Although the Conseil Supérieur of Cap Français had recognized Chapuizet's status as “white and unblemished” (blanc et ingénu) in 1771, the colonial administration and much of the white elit…
Robert Launay. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder
Whatever its merits or shortcomings, Edward Said’s pathbreaking polemic Orientalism (1978) has in the forty years since its publication inspired a growing body of excellent scholarly studies of the impact of cross-cultural encounters on the development of philosophical and sociological thought in the modern West. Scholars such as Anthony Pagden, P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams, Harry Liebersohn, J. J. Clarke, and Jürgen Osterhammel have enric…
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth
Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an eighteenth-century French astronomer and polymath, elaborated an original interpretation of the prehistoric origins of civilization which anticipated many of the details of the “Aryan myth.” Bailly argued that Atlantis was the root civilization of mankind, which had invented the arts and sciences and civilized the Chinese, Indians, and Egyptians. He situated this primordial people in the far north of Eurasia, and argued th…
Religion(s) and the Enlightenment
Despite its long-standing reputation for skepticism and irreverence, the Enlightenment took religion quite seriously. Historians have long recognized this fact, and have often represented the intellectual history of the eighteenth century in terms of the struggle between religious faith and philosophical skepticism. One common view of the period holds that religious dogmatism and intolerance, memorably condemned by Voltaire as l’Infâme, served as…
Guillaume Cuchet. Les voix d'outre-tombe: Tables tournantes, spiritisme et société
The Wisdom of the East: Enlightenment Perspectives on China
Unlike the Islamic Near East, which had been known to the West for centuries, China constituted a “new world” for early modern Europe, which had been only dimly aware of its existence before the sixteenth-century voyages of exploration. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China came to be admired by many Westerners in a way that the Islamic world never was. Respected for its great antiquity, the stability of its institutions and customs,…
The Apotheosis of Europe
In the preceding chapters, we have observed that French Enlightenment authors used cross-cultural comparisons in a number of ways: to comment approvingly or disapprovingly on their own country’s culture and institutions, to engage in debates regarding natural law and the principles governing human society, and to prove or disprove theories regarding human origins, human nature, and the causes of racial and cultural diversity. This chapter will fo…
Philosophy in the Seraglio: Orientalism and the Enlightenment
Facing Europe along the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean and at times reaching into the corners of Europe itself, the Islamic Orient has long been the West’s most enduring Other and its most persistent point of reference for meditation upon the meaning of cultural difference. Relations between Christendom and the Islamic world have often been characterized by mutual hostility, as Muslim control over the Christian holy places outra…
Conclusion
This book has explored the importance of cross-cultural comparisons to the social and political thought of the French Enlightenment. Cross-cultural comparisons, and the sciences humaines for which they stood as foundations, served as a powerful double-edged sword for Enlightenment-era French writers and cultural critics, defining a discourse that was simultaneously universalist and relativist, Eurocentric and cosmopolitan. Eighteenth-century Fren…
The Last Frontiers
French Enlightenment interest in the non-European world was not confined to Asia and the Americas. As Enlightenment thinkers sought to elaborate a new universal science of man, they supported their competing theories with a wide range of examples, drawing not only upon Greco-Roman antiquity and contemporary Europe, but also upon travel narratives from distant lands. They recognized, however, that much of the available information regarding the pe…
The Varieties of Man: Racial Theory between Climate and Heredity
Numerous historians of racism in Western culture have argued that the eighteenth century marked a critical milestone in the construction of race, with George Mosse going so far as to declare that “eighteenth-century Europe was the cradle of modern racism.” 1 The race concept was not an invention of the Enlightenment; recent studies have highlighted precedents such as ancient Greek representations of Persians and other “barbarians,” the growing pr…
The New World and the Noble Savage
As eighteenth-century Europeans looked to the Orient to debate the relative merits of Eastern and Western civilizations, they also looked across the Atlantic to consider the benefits and drawbacks of civilization itself, as weighed against the charms of a simpler, more primitive existence in harmony with an idealized Nature. The figure of the “noble savage” was increasingly invoked in these debates as a sort of discursive experiment, an effort to…
“An Indelible Stain”: Slavery and the Colonial Enlightenment
Writing of the need to preserve strict legal segregation and white supremacy in the colonial Caribbean, the jurist Michel-René Hilliard d’Auberteuil declared that “self-interest and security demand that we burden the black race with such great scorn that whoever descends from it, down to the sixth generation, be covered by an indelible stain.” 1 To the eyes of some contemporary critics, however, it is the French Enlightenment’s own alleged indiff…
The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of
The Noble Savage and the Savage Noble: Philosophy and Ethnography in the Voyages of the Baron de Lahontan
Les écrits du baron de Lahontan furent l’une des sources les plus importantes du mythe du ’bon sauvage’ au siècle des Lumières. Cet article cherche à situer l’oeuvre de Lahontan dans le contexte de la France de Louis XIV, et soutient que son évocation des vertus des Hurons représente une critique de l’orthodoxie catholique, de l’inégalité sociale, et des valeurs de la société capitaliste naissante. Lahontan, comme d’autres hobereaux provinciaux (…
Fortune-Tellers in the French Courts: Antidivination Prosecutions in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830-1945
For more than a century, was the most contested region in western Europe, a battleground for ethnic and cultural identity in an era of rampant nationalism. Harvey's compelling analysis of working-class politics and nationality explains the successive attempts of French and German authorities to impose one national identity on the region and shows how workers responded by adopting a cultural policy that reflected their own political and class inte…
Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism, Politics, and Culture in France from the Old Regime to the Fin–de–Siècle 1
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid Allen HarveyDavid Harvey is an assistant professor of history at New College of Florida
Mothers and Breadwinners: Gender and Working Class Identity in Alsace, 1821-1936
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Law of Habeas Corpus in Canada
The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of
The Chapuizet Affair
This article examines a 1779 legal dispute involving Pierre Chapuizet, a wealthy and well-connected sugar planter of the north province of Saint-Domingue who was denied a commission as an officer in the colonial militia due to allegations of mixed-race origin. Although the Conseil Supérieur of Cap Français had recognized Chapuizet's status as “white and unblemished” (blanc et ingénu) in 1771, the colonial administration and much of the white elit…
The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth
Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an eighteenth-century French astronomer and polymath, elaborated an original interpretation of the prehistoric origins of civilization which anticipated many of the details of the “Aryan myth.” Bailly argued that Atlantis was the root civilization of mankind, which had invented the arts and sciences and civilized the Chinese, Indians, and Egyptians. He situated this primordial people in the far north of Eurasia, and argued th…
Fortune-Tellers in the French Courts: Antidivination Prosecutions in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Law of Habeas Corpus in Canada
Mothers and Breadwinners: Gender and Working Class Identity in Alsace, 1821-1936
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace 1830-1945
For more than a century, was the most contested region in western Europe, a battleground for ethnic and cultural identity in an era of rampant nationalism. Harvey's compelling analysis of working-class politics and nationality explains the successive attempts of French and German authorities to impose one national identity on the region and shows how workers responded by adopting a cultural policy that reflected their own political and class inte…
Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism, Politics, and Culture in France from the Old Regime to the Fin–de–Siècle 1
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid Allen HarveyDavid Harvey is an assistant professor of history at New College of Florida
Fortune-Tellers in the French Courts: Antidivination Prosecutions in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Noble Savage and the Savage Noble: Philosophy and Ethnography in the Voyages of the Baron de Lahontan
Les écrits du baron de Lahontan furent l’une des sources les plus importantes du mythe du ’bon sauvage’ au siècle des Lumières. Cet article cherche à situer l’oeuvre de Lahontan dans le contexte de la France de Louis XIV, et soutient que son évocation des vertus des Hurons représente une critique de l’orthodoxie catholique, de l’inégalité sociale, et des valeurs de la société capitaliste naissante. Lahontan, comme d’autres hobereaux provinciaux (…
The Wisdom of the East: Enlightenment Perspectives on China
Unlike the Islamic Near East, which had been known to the West for centuries, China constituted a “new world” for early modern Europe, which had been only dimly aware of its existence before the sixteenth-century voyages of exploration. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, China came to be admired by many Westerners in a way that the Islamic world never was. Respected for its great antiquity, the stability of its institutions and customs,…
The Apotheosis of Europe
In the preceding chapters, we have observed that French Enlightenment authors used cross-cultural comparisons in a number of ways: to comment approvingly or disapprovingly on their own country’s culture and institutions, to engage in debates regarding natural law and the principles governing human society, and to prove or disprove theories regarding human origins, human nature, and the causes of racial and cultural diversity. This chapter will fo…
Philosophy in the Seraglio: Orientalism and the Enlightenment
Facing Europe along the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean and at times reaching into the corners of Europe itself, the Islamic Orient has long been the West’s most enduring Other and its most persistent point of reference for meditation upon the meaning of cultural difference. Relations between Christendom and the Islamic world have often been characterized by mutual hostility, as Muslim control over the Christian holy places outra…
Conclusion
This book has explored the importance of cross-cultural comparisons to the social and political thought of the French Enlightenment. Cross-cultural comparisons, and the sciences humaines for which they stood as foundations, served as a powerful double-edged sword for Enlightenment-era French writers and cultural critics, defining a discourse that was simultaneously universalist and relativist, Eurocentric and cosmopolitan. Eighteenth-century Fren…
The Last Frontiers
French Enlightenment interest in the non-European world was not confined to Asia and the Americas. As Enlightenment thinkers sought to elaborate a new universal science of man, they supported their competing theories with a wide range of examples, drawing not only upon Greco-Roman antiquity and contemporary Europe, but also upon travel narratives from distant lands. They recognized, however, that much of the available information regarding the pe…
The Varieties of Man: Racial Theory between Climate and Heredity
Numerous historians of racism in Western culture have argued that the eighteenth century marked a critical milestone in the construction of race, with George Mosse going so far as to declare that “eighteenth-century Europe was the cradle of modern racism.” 1 The race concept was not an invention of the Enlightenment; recent studies have highlighted precedents such as ancient Greek representations of Persians and other “barbarians,” the growing pr…
The New World and the Noble Savage
As eighteenth-century Europeans looked to the Orient to debate the relative merits of Eastern and Western civilizations, they also looked across the Atlantic to consider the benefits and drawbacks of civilization itself, as weighed against the charms of a simpler, more primitive existence in harmony with an idealized Nature. The figure of the “noble savage” was increasingly invoked in these debates as a sort of discursive experiment, an effort to…
“An Indelible Stain”: Slavery and the Colonial Enlightenment
Writing of the need to preserve strict legal segregation and white supremacy in the colonial Caribbean, the jurist Michel-René Hilliard d’Auberteuil declared that “self-interest and security demand that we burden the black race with such great scorn that whoever descends from it, down to the sixth generation, be covered by an indelible stain.” 1 To the eyes of some contemporary critics, however, it is the French Enlightenment’s own alleged indiff…
The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of
Guillaume Cuchet. Les voix d'outre-tombe: Tables tournantes, spiritisme et société
The Lost Caucasian Civilization: Jean-Sylvain Bailly and the Roots of the Aryan Myth
Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an eighteenth-century French astronomer and polymath, elaborated an original interpretation of the prehistoric origins of civilization which anticipated many of the details of the “Aryan myth.” Bailly argued that Atlantis was the root civilization of mankind, which had invented the arts and sciences and civilized the Chinese, Indians, and Egyptians. He situated this primordial people in the far north of Eurasia, and argued th…
Religion(s) and the Enlightenment
Despite its long-standing reputation for skepticism and irreverence, the Enlightenment took religion quite seriously. Historians have long recognized this fact, and have often represented the intellectual history of the eighteenth century in terms of the struggle between religious faith and philosophical skepticism. One common view of the period holds that religious dogmatism and intolerance, memorably condemned by Voltaire as l’Infâme, served as…
Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality
Robert Launay. Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder
Whatever its merits or shortcomings, Edward Said’s pathbreaking polemic Orientalism (1978) has in the forty years since its publication inspired a growing body of excellent scholarly studies of the impact of cross-cultural encounters on the development of philosophical and sociological thought in the modern West. Scholars such as Anthony Pagden, P. J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams, Harry Liebersohn, J. J. Clarke, and Jürgen Osterhammel have enric…
The Chapuizet Affair
This article examines a 1779 legal dispute involving Pierre Chapuizet, a wealthy and well-connected sugar planter of the north province of Saint-Domingue who was denied a commission as an officer in the colonial militia due to allegations of mixed-race origin. Although the Conseil Supérieur of Cap Français had recognized Chapuizet's status as “white and unblemished” (blanc et ingénu) in 1771, the colonial administration and much of the white elit…
The Colony and the Company: Haiti after the Mississippi Bubble. By Malick Ghachem
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