Making the British empire, 1660-1800 (eBook)

Jason Peacey (Herausgeber)

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2020
216 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-0610-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is based on the latest research, and involves stimulating new ideas from some of the most important scholars working in the field of imperial history. It ranges across politics, religion, economy, law and geography in order to offer challenging perspectives on the nature and origins of the first British empire.

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This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the 'cultural turn' in historical scholarship and the 'new imperial history'. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developments across the empire, not least in terms of how they affected imperial 'policy' and its implementation. It analyses a range of contemporary debates and ideas - political and intellectual as well as religious and administrative - relating to political economy, legal geography and sovereignty, as well as the messy realities of the imperial project, including the costs and losses of empire, collectively and individually.

Autor

Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at University College London

Inhalt

1 Introduction – Jason Peacey
2 The pivot of empire: party politics, Spanish America and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) – Steve Pincus
3 Party politics and empire in the early eighteenth century – J. H. Elliott
4 From anti-popery and anti-puritanism to orientalism – William J. Bulman
5 Protestantism and the politics of overseas expansion in later Stuart England – Gabriel Glickman
6 Reconciling empire: English political economy and the Spanish imperial model, 1660–90 – Leslie Theibert
7 Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay’ – Philip J. Stern
8 Compensating imperial loyalty, 1700–1800 – Julian Hoppit
9 Sheffield’s vision: the American Revolution and the 1783 partition of North America – Eliga H. Gould
10 Legal pluralism and Burke’s law of nations – Jennifer Pitts
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.6.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Imperialism
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Empire • Geography • India • Law • North America • Parties • Political Economy • Politics • Religion • Sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-0610-8 / 1526106108
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-0610-0 / 9781526106100