Joshua Ehrlich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Ehrlich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Ehrlich |
| SIGNATURE | EHRLICH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5526-9360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adam Ferguson on the British Empire in India
The Scottish philosophe Adam Ferguson’s views on the British empire—especially beyond the Atlantic context—have proved elusive. This Document draws upon a new letter of Ferguson to show that these views encompassed the British empire in India. It reveals that, in the 1770s and 1780s, he supported the continuation of this empire under the embattled East India Company. It finds that his support was rooted in a sense that Britain must compete with E…
Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism
Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies…
William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge
This article is part of the following collections: New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 S[tephens], ‘Jones, William (1746–1794).’2 See Said, Orientalism, 77–9.3 Cannon, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones, xv.4 Jones to Lloyd Kenyon, 27 January 1783, in Jones, The Letters of Sir William Jones [hereafter LWJ], II, 601 [emphasis remove…
New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones
A quarter-century has passed since the last round of scholarly reassessments of Sir William Jones (1746-94), known in his day as the leading European 'orientalist' and to posterity as the founder of modern linguistics.That round consisted mostly, on the one hand, of critical readings of Jones inspired by Edward Said and postcolonial studies, and, on the other hand, of efforts to rehabilitate Jones as an 'Indophile' or cultural relativist.For all …
Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an observer of change in British India
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are now seen as a moment when the ‘second’ British Empire arose from the ruins of the ‘first’ one. One witness to, and participant in, the convulsions of the age was Warren Hastings (1732–1818), the first governor-general of Bengal. Hastings’ career in India, his trial in parliament, and his imperial afterlife all have received fulsome attention. Yet his retirement years have been overlooked, owi…
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta's Maratha Ditch, c.1700-1950
Global histories have fixated on connections, notably in their treatment of colonial and postcolonial port cities. While such cities have been intensely connected places, however, they have also been intensely bounded ones. The present article takes as an example of this phenomenon the archetypal port city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and its historical boundary, the Maratha Ditch. From the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, the ditch was …
A decade of controversy: Sources on the demarcation of Calcutta, 1784-94
Historians have tended to assume that the boundaries of Calcutta were generally agreed upon before 1794, and that their formalization in that year marked a natural stage in the evolution of the town. The documents published here tell a different story. They show that the southeastern boundary was the subject of heated disputes among British and Indian officials and landholders. They reveal how these disputes gave rise to the demarcation of Calcut…
New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange
This article presents and analyses two previously unknown sources on Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia (1710–83). While the raja has long been famed in Bengal as a patron of brahmans, scholarship on him has had to contend with a lack of evidence. The two new sources, reports of conversations between Krishnachandra and Europeans, furnish insights into his mind and milieu. They support recent arguments that he used brahmanical patronage to buttress his …
Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India
This article traces the fortunes of one of India’s great libraries, which Tipu Sultan of Mysore amassed largely through plunder and which the British East India Company plundered in turn. It shows how Tipu used the library to legitimise his authority and how rival factions of the Company, after defeating him in 1799, did the same. The article links the figuration of loot in the subcontinent, as studied by historians of material culture, to the co…
Anxiety, Chaos, and the Raj
Chaos reigns – at least in the historiography of the Raj. It was once the consensus among historians that British imperial authority in the Indian subcontinent was secure for at least the century-and-a-half before the Second World War. Recently, however, this narrative has drawn a range of challenges. Prominently, Mark Condos and Jon Wilson have held that British imperial authority was chronically in secure. In their view, the irrational anxiety …
Empire and Enlightenment in Three Letters From Sir William Jones to Governor-General John Macpherson
These newly discovered letters help to reconstruct the close association between two seemingly disparate eighteenth-century Britons in India. Moreover, they suggest that a fixation on clashes of ‘cultural attitudes’ has distorted modern assessments of the politics of scholarly patronage in that era. The long-lauded William Jones and the long-dismissed John Macpherson were not so different after all. The views of each ranged from the sublime heigh…
The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public opinion, pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833
This article reveals the Charter Act of 1833 as a turning point in the history of British-Indian political thought, which foreclosed, for a generation, liberal efforts to reform Britain's avowedly despotic regime in India. Anticipating a victory in their transmarine campaign to make the state accountable to an Indian 'public', reformers were disillusioned to find instead that the new Act was founded on enlightened despotism. Attempting to gather …
The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation by G.J. Bryant (review)
Reviewed by: The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation by G.J. Bryant Joshua Ehrlich The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation By G.J. Bryant. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013. The Emergency of British Power in India addresses a classic historical question: how the British East India Company evolved in the eighteenth century from a trading corporation in…
Divorce and loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart
This volume] is designed for all therapists who work with divorce. Examining the searing losses of divorce, Joshua Ehrlich explains how therapists--through individual therapy, parental guidance, and broader interventions--can help family members mourn. This book also addresses difficulties with mourning, including the high-conflict divorce, and how to deal with those difficult situations constructively. Divorce and Loss provides detailed clinical…
William Robertson and Scientific Theism
Scholars have hitherto found little to no place for natural philosophy in the intellectual makeup of the Enlightened historian William Robertson, overlooking his significant contacts with that province and its central relevance to the controversy surrounding David Hume and Lord Kames in the 1750s. Here I reexamine Robertson's Situation of the World at the Time of Christ's Appearance (1755) in light of these contexts. I argue that his foundational…
Being a Candidate: Its Impact On Analytic Process
Despite its crucial importance to psychoanalytic training, the control analysis has received surprisingly little scrutiny by psychoanalytic writers. How the candidate's training influences analytic process— a critical feature of the control analysis—is examined. In keeping with previous contributions, it is found that the candidate's training experience does indeed influence analytic process. It is argued, however, that focusing on the influence …
Joshua Ehrlich Replies
Vulnerability to Stress: Self‐Criticism and Stress‐Induced Changes In Biochemistry
It has been hypothesized that individuals who are high on the attribute of self‐criticism are particularly vulnerable to failure stress. To test this hypothesis, we examined the relationship between self‐criticism and changes in plasma homovanillic acid (HVA; the metabolite of dopamine) and emotion during exposure to an induced‐failure task. Participants consisted of 21 women. Plasma HVA and emotion were assessed at three time points: baseline (T…
Empire and Enlightenment in Three Letters From Sir William Jones to Governor-General John Macpherson
These newly discovered letters help to reconstruct the close association between two seemingly disparate eighteenth-century Britons in India. Moreover, they suggest that a fixation on clashes of ‘cultural attitudes’ has distorted modern assessments of the politics of scholarly patronage in that era. The long-lauded William Jones and the long-dismissed John Macpherson were not so different after all. The views of each ranged from the sublime heigh…
Being a Candidate: Its Impact On Analytic Process
Despite its crucial importance to psychoanalytic training, the control analysis has received surprisingly little scrutiny by psychoanalytic writers. How the candidate's training influences analytic process— a critical feature of the control analysis—is examined. In keeping with previous contributions, it is found that the candidate's training experience does indeed influence analytic process. It is argued, however, that focusing on the influence …
William Robertson and Scientific Theism
Scholars have hitherto found little to no place for natural philosophy in the intellectual makeup of the Enlightened historian William Robertson, overlooking his significant contacts with that province and its central relevance to the controversy surrounding David Hume and Lord Kames in the 1750s. Here I reexamine Robertson's Situation of the World at the Time of Christ's Appearance (1755) in light of these contexts. I argue that his foundational…
Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India
This article traces the fortunes of one of India’s great libraries, which Tipu Sultan of Mysore amassed largely through plunder and which the British East India Company plundered in turn. It shows how Tipu used the library to legitimise his authority and how rival factions of the Company, after defeating him in 1799, did the same. The article links the figuration of loot in the subcontinent, as studied by historians of material culture, to the co…
Anxiety, Chaos, and the Raj
Chaos reigns – at least in the historiography of the Raj. It was once the consensus among historians that British imperial authority in the Indian subcontinent was secure for at least the century-and-a-half before the Second World War. Recently, however, this narrative has drawn a range of challenges. Prominently, Mark Condos and Jon Wilson have held that British imperial authority was chronically in secure. In their view, the irrational anxiety …
The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public opinion, pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833
This article reveals the Charter Act of 1833 as a turning point in the history of British-Indian political thought, which foreclosed, for a generation, liberal efforts to reform Britain's avowedly despotic regime in India. Anticipating a victory in their transmarine campaign to make the state accountable to an Indian 'public', reformers were disillusioned to find instead that the new Act was founded on enlightened despotism. Attempting to gather …
Vulnerability to Stress: Self‐Criticism and Stress‐Induced Changes In Biochemistry
It has been hypothesized that individuals who are high on the attribute of self‐criticism are particularly vulnerable to failure stress. To test this hypothesis, we examined the relationship between self‐criticism and changes in plasma homovanillic acid (HVA; the metabolite of dopamine) and emotion during exposure to an induced‐failure task. Participants consisted of 21 women. Plasma HVA and emotion were assessed at three time points: baseline (T…
Being a Candidate: Its Impact On Analytic Process
Despite its crucial importance to psychoanalytic training, the control analysis has received surprisingly little scrutiny by psychoanalytic writers. How the candidate's training influences analytic process— a critical feature of the control analysis—is examined. In keeping with previous contributions, it is found that the candidate's training experience does indeed influence analytic process. It is argued, however, that focusing on the influence …
Joshua Ehrlich Replies
William Robertson and Scientific Theism
Scholars have hitherto found little to no place for natural philosophy in the intellectual makeup of the Enlightened historian William Robertson, overlooking his significant contacts with that province and its central relevance to the controversy surrounding David Hume and Lord Kames in the 1750s. Here I reexamine Robertson's Situation of the World at the Time of Christ's Appearance (1755) in light of these contexts. I argue that his foundational…
Divorce and loss: Helping Adults and Children Mourn When a Marriage Comes Apart
This volume] is designed for all therapists who work with divorce. Examining the searing losses of divorce, Joshua Ehrlich explains how therapists--through individual therapy, parental guidance, and broader interventions--can help family members mourn. This book also addresses difficulties with mourning, including the high-conflict divorce, and how to deal with those difficult situations constructively. Divorce and Loss provides detailed clinical…
The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation by G.J. Bryant (review)
Reviewed by: The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation by G.J. Bryant Joshua Ehrlich The Emergence of British Power in India, 1600–1784: A grand strategic interpretation By G.J. Bryant. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2013. The Emergency of British Power in India addresses a classic historical question: how the British East India Company evolved in the eighteenth century from a trading corporation in…
The Crisis of Liberal Reform in India: Public opinion, pyrotechnics, and the Charter Act of 1833
This article reveals the Charter Act of 1833 as a turning point in the history of British-Indian political thought, which foreclosed, for a generation, liberal efforts to reform Britain's avowedly despotic regime in India. Anticipating a victory in their transmarine campaign to make the state accountable to an Indian 'public', reformers were disillusioned to find instead that the new Act was founded on enlightened despotism. Attempting to gather …
Empire and Enlightenment in Three Letters From Sir William Jones to Governor-General John Macpherson
These newly discovered letters help to reconstruct the close association between two seemingly disparate eighteenth-century Britons in India. Moreover, they suggest that a fixation on clashes of ‘cultural attitudes’ has distorted modern assessments of the politics of scholarly patronage in that era. The long-lauded William Jones and the long-dismissed John Macpherson were not so different after all. The views of each ranged from the sublime heigh…
New Lights on Raja Krishnachandra and Early Hindu-European Intellectual Exchange
This article presents and analyses two previously unknown sources on Raja Krishnachandra of Nadia (1710–83). While the raja has long been famed in Bengal as a patron of brahmans, scholarship on him has had to contend with a lack of evidence. The two new sources, reports of conversations between Krishnachandra and Europeans, furnish insights into his mind and milieu. They support recent arguments that he used brahmanical patronage to buttress his …
Plunder and Prestige: Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India
This article traces the fortunes of one of India’s great libraries, which Tipu Sultan of Mysore amassed largely through plunder and which the British East India Company plundered in turn. It shows how Tipu used the library to legitimise his authority and how rival factions of the Company, after defeating him in 1799, did the same. The article links the figuration of loot in the subcontinent, as studied by historians of material culture, to the co…
Anxiety, Chaos, and the Raj
Chaos reigns – at least in the historiography of the Raj. It was once the consensus among historians that British imperial authority in the Indian subcontinent was secure for at least the century-and-a-half before the Second World War. Recently, however, this narrative has drawn a range of challenges. Prominently, Mark Condos and Jon Wilson have held that British imperial authority was chronically in secure. In their view, the irrational anxiety …
The Meanings of a Port City Boundary: Calcutta's Maratha Ditch, c.1700-1950
Global histories have fixated on connections, notably in their treatment of colonial and postcolonial port cities. While such cities have been intensely connected places, however, they have also been intensely bounded ones. The present article takes as an example of this phenomenon the archetypal port city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and its historical boundary, the Maratha Ditch. From the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, the ditch was …
A decade of controversy: Sources on the demarcation of Calcutta, 1784-94
Historians have tended to assume that the boundaries of Calcutta were generally agreed upon before 1794, and that their formalization in that year marked a natural stage in the evolution of the town. The documents published here tell a different story. They show that the southeastern boundary was the subject of heated disputes among British and Indian officials and landholders. They reveal how these disputes gave rise to the demarcation of Calcut…
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was also the world's most enlightened one. Joshua Ehrlich reveals that a commitment to knowledge was integral to the Company's ideology. He shows how the Company cited this commitment in defense of its increasingly fraught union of commercial and political power. He moves beyond studies…
William Jones and the Politics of Knowledge
This article is part of the following collections: New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 S[tephens], ‘Jones, William (1746–1794).’2 See Said, Orientalism, 77–9.3 Cannon, The Life and Mind of Oriental Jones, xv.4 Jones to Lloyd Kenyon, 27 January 1783, in Jones, The Letters of Sir William Jones [hereafter LWJ], II, 601 [emphasis remove…
New Perspectives on the Life and Worlds of Sir William Jones
A quarter-century has passed since the last round of scholarly reassessments of Sir William Jones (1746-94), known in his day as the leading European 'orientalist' and to posterity as the founder of modern linguistics.That round consisted mostly, on the one hand, of critical readings of Jones inspired by Edward Said and postcolonial studies, and, on the other hand, of efforts to rehabilitate Jones as an 'Indophile' or cultural relativist.For all …
Straddling the Imperial Meridian: Warren Hastings as an observer of change in British India
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are now seen as a moment when the ‘second’ British Empire arose from the ruins of the ‘first’ one. One witness to, and participant in, the convulsions of the age was Warren Hastings (1732–1818), the first governor-general of Bengal. Hastings’ career in India, his trial in parliament, and his imperial afterlife all have received fulsome attention. Yet his retirement years have been overlooked, owi…
Towards Histories of Ideas of Knowledge: A Reply
Towards global histories of cosmopolitanism
Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India
Adam Ferguson on the British Empire in India
The Scottish philosophe Adam Ferguson’s views on the British empire—especially beyond the Atlantic context—have proved elusive. This Document draws upon a new letter of Ferguson to show that these views encompassed the British empire in India. It reveals that, in the 1770s and 1780s, he supported the continuation of this empire under the embattled East India Company. It finds that his support was rooted in a sense that Britain must compete with E…
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