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.
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"Winner of the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2000"
"The ideological Orgins of the British Empire provides a learned and stimulating contribution to a number of areas of scholarly inquiry...compelling." Tearsheet From William and Mary Quarterly
The book triumphantly provides a very obvious answer: the aspirations and experiences of the people of the British Isle shaped concepts of empire." The International History Review Dec 2001
"All readers will have their favorite sections of this engaging book." Journal of Modern History
"Armitage (Columbia Univ.) used some 200 books published in the British Isles between 1550 and 1750, in addition to manuscripts in English and Scottish archives, as sources for this erudite study of the conceptual underpinning of the transatlantic "first British empire"." CHOICE March 2001
"The ideological Orgins of the British Empire provides a learned and stimulating contribution to a number of areas of scholarly inquiry...compelling." Tearsheet From William and Mary Quarterly
The book triumphantly provides a very obvious answer: the aspirations and experiences of the people of the British Isle shaped concepts of empire." The International History Review Dec 2001
"All readers will have their favorite sections of this engaging book." Journal of Modern History
"Armitage (Columbia Univ.) used some 200 books published in the British Isles between 1550 and 1750, in addition to manuscripts in English and Scottish archives, as sources for this erudite study of the conceptual underpinning of the transatlantic "first British empire"." CHOICE March 2001
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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.
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By the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the British Empire comprehended the United Kingdom of great Britain, Ireland, the islands of the Caribbean and the British mainland colonies of North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maritime ideology, composite monarchy, mare clausum, early memoranda, composite monarchies, mare liberum, multiple monarchy, papal donation, incorporating union, plantation trade, multiple kingdom, patriot king, universal monarchy, ideological origins, composite states, ideological history, civilising mission, three kingdoms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, North America, Hakluytus Posthumus, Glorious Revolution, British Atlantic, Richard Hakluyt, Greater Britain, Roman Empire, Samuel Purchas, Sir Thomas Smith, East Indies, English Parliament, Edmund Spenser, Sir William Petty, American Revolution, David Hume, Quentin Skinner, Company of Scotland, Navigation Acts, West Indies, David Armitage, Hugo Grotius, New Haven, New York, Nicholas Canny New!
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By the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the British Empire comprehended the United Kingdom of great Britain, Ireland, the islands of the Caribbean and the British mainland colonies of North America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
maritime ideology, composite monarchy, mare clausum, early memoranda, composite monarchies, mare liberum, multiple monarchy, papal donation, incorporating union, plantation trade, multiple kingdom, patriot king, universal monarchy, ideological origins, composite states, ideological history, civilising mission, three kingdoms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Britain, North America, Hakluytus Posthumus, Glorious Revolution, British Atlantic, Richard Hakluyt, Greater Britain, Roman Empire, Samuel Purchas, Sir Thomas Smith, East Indies, English Parliament, Edmund Spenser, Sir William Petty, American Revolution, David Hume, Quentin Skinner, Company of Scotland, Navigation Acts, West Indies, David Armitage, Hugo Grotius, New Haven, New York, Nicholas Canny New!
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