Details

Subject(s)

• Political science—Great Britain—History [Browse]
• Great Britain—Colonies—History [Browse]

Series

• Ideas in context ; 59. [More in this series]
• Ideas in context ; 59 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, 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 linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating 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.

Notes

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-229) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: state and empire in British history; CHAPTER 2 The empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Ireland c. 1542-1612; CHAPTER 3 Protestantism and empire: Hakluyt, Purchase and property; CHAPTER 4 The empire of the seas, 1576-1689; CHAPTER 5 Liberty and empire; CHAPTER 6 The political economy of empire; CHAPTER 7 Empire and ideology in the Walpoleam era; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-107-11424-1
• 1-280-42922-4
• 0-511-17307-5
• 0-511-03989-1
• 0-511-15203-5
• 0-511-32329-8
• 0-511-75596-1
• 0-511-05422-X

OCLC

• 559109879
• 56124347

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