Overview

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. -- .

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Author:   Jason Peacey
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780719088568

ISBN 10:   0719088569
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   12 June 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Index -- .

Reviews

'This interesting volume is an important contribution to the history of the first British Empire and one that richly deserves attention... There will be a lot of interest in this volume for specialists considering the roles of trade and other factors in early British imperialism.' Journal of British Studies -- .

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

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