The ideological origins of the British Empire

The ideological origins of the British Empire / David Armitage.

David Armitage makes an outstanding contribution with this history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. He sheds new light on major British political thinkers, and the relationship between Protestantism and empire, theories of property, liberty and political economy, and the...

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Main Author: Armitage, David, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:Ideas in context ; 59.
Subjects:
Commonwealth
Political science > Great Britain > History.
Imperialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Imperialism
British colonies
Political science
Kolonie
Kolonialismus
Imperialismus
Imperialisme.
Ideologie.
Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: state and empire in British history
  • The empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Ireland c. 1542-1612
  • Protestantism and empire: Hakluyt, Purchas and property
  • The empire of the seas, 1576-1689
  • Liberty and empire
  • The political economy of empire
  • Empire and ideology in the Walpolean era.

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