The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521789783)

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.

Author: David Armitage
ISBN-10: 0521789788
ISBN-13: 9780521789783
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2000
Pages: 258
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.26w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1334