The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

ISBN-13: 9780521590815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 258 str.

N Columbia University David Armitage (Professor of History

Opis

David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing novel accounts of the "British problem" in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of the British identity.

Recenzje

'… impressively learned and forcefully argued …'. Yearbook of English Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction: state and empire in British history; 2. The empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Ireland, c. 1542–1612; 3. Protestantism and empire: Hakluyt, Purchas and property; 4. The empire of the seas, 1576–1689; 5. Liberty and empire; 6. The political economy of empire; 7. Empire and ideology in the Walpolean era.