Peacey / Unknown Making the British empire, 1660–1800

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0609-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 195, 216 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Peacey, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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