The Ideological Origins of the British Empire

David (Professor of History, Columbia University, New York) Armitage

Cambridge University Press, 2000

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David Armitage makes an outstanding contribution with this history of British conceptions of empire from the 1540s to the 1740s. He sheds light on major British political thinkers, and the relationship between Protestantism and empire, theories of property, liberty and political economy, and the emergence of the British identity. Winner of the History Today Book of the Year prize for 2000.

ISBN-13
9780521590815
ISBN-10
0521590817
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-09-11
Pages
258
Dimensions
160x235x25
Weight
530