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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809265203321

Autore

Armitage David <1965->

Titolo

The ideological origins of the British Empire / / David Armitage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Ideas in context ; ; 59

Disciplina

325/.341

Soggetti

Political science - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.