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The ideological origins of the British Empire

Author: David Armitage
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series: Ideas in context, 59.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial ideology from the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Armitage
ISBN: 0521590817 9780521590815 0521789788 9780521789783
OCLC Number: 43115118
Description: xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Series Title: Ideas in context, 59.
Responsibility: David Armitage.
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"The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial ideology from the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linkage between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. 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 British 'identities' in the Atlantic world."--Jacket.

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