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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? -- Whose Enlightenment? -- Reassessing the European Trajectory -- Practical Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond -- Cosmopolitanism from the Margins -- Cosmopolitanism and Politics -- 1 Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism in Perspective: Diversity, Natural Law, and Reason in the Work of John Locke -- Natural Law, Consensus, and the Challenge of Diversity -- Locke's Politics -- The Force of Reason -- 2 The Cosmopolitan Paradox: Travel, Anthropology, and the Problem of Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Thought -- The Longue-Durée History of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism -- The Paradoxes of Early Modern Cosmopolitanism -- The Distinctiveness of the Early Modern European Trajectory -- The Cultural Contents of Moral Cosmopolitanism -- 3 Diderot's Conjectural History and the History of ''Monstrous Nature'' -- D'Alembert and Rousseau -- The Young Diderot -- After the Encyclopédie -- A Science of Morals -- History of European Societies -- Wickedness: The Conquerors -- Superstition: The Missionaries -- Greed: The Merchants -- Despotism -- Cosmopolitanism and Politics. How to Think a Society which Is Not Monstrous -- 4 Geographies of Cosmopolitanism: Cartography, Natural History, and the Spaces of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century -- A Cosmographer Who Never Left Home: The Cartographic Practices of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville -- Entering and Imagining the Pacific -- Humboldtian Cosmography and the Boundaries of Brazil -- Conclusion: From European to Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms -- 5 The Imperial, Global (Cosmopolitan) Dimensions of Nonelite Colonial Scribal Cultures in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic.

Petitioning, Cosmopolitanism, and Black Scribal Culture -- Women's Scribal Culture: The Political Economy of Souls, Global Bilocation, and Global Prophecy -- The Local Trajectories of the Global Body as Text -- Andean ''Cosmopolitans'' -- Conclusion -- 6 Gendered Cosmopolitanism?: The History of Women and the Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment -- Introduction: Civilizing the ''Savage Girl'' -- Women as Agents of Humanity and Cosmopolitanism -- Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Eurocentrism -- Limits of Cosmopolitanism: Effeminacy -- 7 Cosmopolitanism and the Creation of Patriotic Identities in the European Enlightenment: The Case of Pietro Napoli Signorelli and His Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni -- Between Naples and Madrid -- Napoli Signorelli's Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni and His Defense of Neoclassicism -- The Contemporary Response: Provençal Poetry and Spanish ''Arabism'' -- The Second Edition of the Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni di Pietro Napoli Signorelli napoletano (1787-1790) -- Conclusion -- 8 A Cosmopolitanism of Countervailing Powers: Resistance against Global Domination in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano -- Kant -- Cugoano -- Conclusion -- 9 Cosmopolitanism and Civil War -- Afterword: Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents -- Index.

This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective.