Trading places : colonization and slavery in eighteenth-century French culture / Madeleine Dobie.

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2010.

xv, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reorienting slavery -- Oriental veneers -- The "fabric of two worlds" -- The trope of colonial encounter -- Slaves and the noble savage -- Colonial political economy -- Economic sentiments.