Making the British Empire, 1660-1800 /
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...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
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Table of Contents:
- 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.