The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
by David Armitage
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context) by David Armitage (2000)
Reviewed by Julia Lederle for H-Net here:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=8091015099401
And by Eliga H. Gould for H-Albion here:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=18047997200327
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David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. Alison Bahsford is the Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.
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Ideas in Context (59)
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- Canonical title
- The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
- Important places
- British Empire
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 325.341 — Society, Government, and Culture Political science International migration and colonization English Migration to Europe
- LCC
- JV1011 .A75 — Political Science Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration Colonies and colonization. Emigration and Colonizing nations
- BISAC
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- Reviews
- 2
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
