Abbé Raynal, ABBE GUILLAUME-THOMAS RAYNAL, Histoire philosophique et critique des établissements et des commerces des Européens dans les deux Indes (1770-1780), édition critique sous la direction de Cecil C. Courtney, Gianluigi Goggi, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink et Anthony Strugnell

Critical edition of a classic of 18th century historiography on European expansion overseas. The critical edition ciìonsists in: establishment of the text, collection of variants, introduction to book II, critical comentary, bibliography. This is the first cooperative work devoted to the classic work by Raynal and for the first time an attempt has been made to reconstruct the general process of textual genesis, from primary sources to the successive three 18th century editions