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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154687503321

Titolo

Theories of empire, 1450-1800 / / edited by David Armitage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-23634-6

1-351-87977-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 pages)

Collana

Expanding World ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

ArmitageDavid <1965->

Disciplina

327.4

Soggetti

Imperialism - History

Europe Territorial expansion

Europe Colonies

Europe Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1998 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di contenuto

1. Imperium Romanum : empire and the language of power / J.S. Richardson -- 2. Empire and union : two concepts of the early modern European political order / John Robertson -- 3. The Habsburgh world empire and the revival of Ghibellinism / John M. Headley -- 4. The European debate on universal monarchy / Franz Bosbach -- 5. Imperio Particular e Imperio Universal en las Cartas de Relación de Hernán  Cortés / Victor Frankl -- 6. The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers / John H. Elliott -- 7. Dispossessing the barbarians : the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians / Anthony Pagden -- 8. The ideology of English colonization : from Ireland to America / Nicholas P. Canny -- 9. Sovereignty-Association, 1500-1783 / W.J. Eccles -- 10. Freitas versus Grotius / C.H. Alexandrowicz -- 11. Millenarianism and empire : Portuguese Asian decline and the 'Crise de conscience' of the missionaries / G.D. Winius -- 12. Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jacob Viner -- 13. New wine in old skins? American definitions of empire and the emergence of a new concept / Norbert Kilian -- 14. Spain and the breakdown of the imperial ethos : the problem of equality / Timothy E. Anna -- 15. Aboriginal property and western theory : recovering a



middle ground / James Tully.