Introduction The Enlightenment and the Politics of Civilization: Self-Colonization, Catholicism, and Assimilationism in Eighteenth-Century France Enlightened Colonialism? French Assimilationism, Silencing, and Colonial Fantasy on Madagascar Enlightenment: Assimilationist Ideals and the Preservation of Native Identities New Forms of Colonialism on the Frontiers of Hispanic America: Assimilationist Projects and Economic Disputes (Río de la Plata, Late Eighteenth Century) Civilizing Strategies and the Beginning of Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire Creating Differences for Integration: Enlightened Reforms and Civilizing Missions in the Eastern European Possessions of the Habsburg Monarchy (1750–1815) “Gradually Reclaiming Them from a State of Barbarism”: Emergence of and Ambivalence in the Aboriginal Civilization Project in Canada (1815–1857) Europe in an Indian Mirror: Comparing Conceptions of Civil Government in Abu Taleb’s Travels (1810) Jean-François de Saint-Lambert and His Moral conte “Ziméo” (1769) in the Context of Abolitionist and Imperial Activities Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism France, the Abolition of Slavery, and Abolitionisms in the Eighteenth Century Colonial Enlightenment and the French Revolution: Julien Raymond and Milscent Créole Black Athena in Haiti: Universal History, Colonization, and the African Origins of Civilization in Postrevolutionary Haitian Writing