TY - JOUR
AU - Ray, Sugata
AB - 1624 Reviews of Books In the conclusion, McShea refers to historical and colonialism not only led to the exchange of ideas be- historiographical misperceptions of the role Jesuits tween the peripheries but also engendered repeated played in NewFranceinrelationtoFrench imperial- (mis)translations and citations of Alexander myths in ism, identifying the Jesuit mission to New France as both contexts. In effect, Alexander in “the peripheries one of its propelling forces, with a lasting imprint in ceased to be Hellenistic” (35) as new mythologies cen- pre-Revolutionary French colonialism and its mission tered around the figure of Alexander come to the fore. civilisatrice. The author further suggests the idea of a This is a crucial interjection, as the author’s focus on modern post-Revolutionary French imperialism and its the peripheries challenges a long-standing Eurocen- civilizing mission with deep roots in post-Tridentine trism in Renaissance and early modern studies by pro- missionary Catholicism. In this regard, in the sixth ductively decentering diffusionist models of global chapter, McShea briefly mentions the cultural assimila- histories that still mark recipients in the peripheries of tion strategies in colonial Algeria comparable to those the Mediterranean world as either passive or imitative. that Jesuits aimed at Native Americans in New 
TI - Su Fang Ng. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia: Peripheral Empires in the Global Renaissance.
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/rhab589
DA - 2022-02-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/su-fang-ng-alexander-the-great-from-britain-to-southeast-asia-aensuKO52J
SP - 1624
EP - 1625
VL - 126
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -