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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context)

By David Armitage

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
0521590817, 9780521590815, 9780511039898
Open Library ID
OL7747448M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1197947 bytes)
Pages
258\259
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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