Interrogating Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain : Coming to Terms with Colonialism
ISBN: 9781107030558 | 1107030552
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2013
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This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years' War produced a substantial critique of empire. This critique evolved out of a widespread re... MORE
| 'The principal cornucopia of Great Britain's wealth': the languages of commerce, liberty, security, and maritime supremacy and the celebration of empire | |
| Outposts of 'loose vagrant people': the language of alterity in the evaluation of empire | |
| 'A fabric at once the dread and wonder of the world': the languages of imperial grandeur, liberty, commerce, humanity, and justice and the American challenge to empire | |
| Arenas of 'Asiatic plunder': the languages of h... MORE | |
| Sites of Creolean despotism: the languages of humanity and justice and the critique of colonial slavery and the African slave trade | |
| 'A fruitless, bloody, wasting war': the languages of imperial grandeur. Liberty, humanity, and commerce in the American conflict | |
| 'This voraginous gulph of Hibernian dependence': the languages of oppression, corruption, justice, liberty, and humanity and the identification of imperial excesses in Ireland | |
| A 'shadow of our former glory'?: The discussion of empire in the wake of American secession | |
| Epilogue: 'against every principle of justice, humanity, and whatever is allowed to be right among mankind': standards of humanity and the evaluation of empire | |
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