The Ideological Origins Of The British Empire

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: First Edition

Description: 239 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers 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.

ISBN: 9780521789783