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Exclusionary Empire: English Liberty Overseas, 1600-1900

By Jack P. Greene

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521132703, 9780521132701, 0521114985, 9780521114981
LCC
JV1096 .E97 2009
Open Library ID
OL23180787M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1821550 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\321
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire - Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa - and on one non-settler colony, India. The book examines the ways in which the polities in each of these areas incorporated these traditions, paying particular attention to the extent to which these traditions were confined to the independent white male segments of society and denied to most others. This collection will be invaluable to all those interested in the history of colonialism, European expansion, the development of empire, the role of cultural inheritance in those histories, and the confinement of access to that inheritance to people of European descent.

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