Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author： Jack P. Greene  

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9781139604208

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107030558

Subject： K561.4 , near contemporary history (~) in 1640.

Keyword： 历史、地理

Language： ENG

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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Description

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 revulsion against the behaviours exhibited by Britons overseas and built on a language of 'otherness' that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies and polities that Britons abroad constructed in their new habitats. It used the languages of humanity and justice as standards to evaluate and condemn the behaviours of both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa or Ireland.

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Contents

Preface

Prologue “Scene of a Foul Transaction”

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1 “The Principal Cornucopia of Great-Britains Wealth”

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2 Outposts of “Loose Vagrant People”

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3 “A Fabric at Once the Dread and Wonder of the World”

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4 Arenas of “Asiatic Plunder”

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5 Sites of Creolean Despotism

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6 “A Fruitless, Bloody, Wasting War”

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7 “This Voraginous Gulph of Hibernian Dependence”

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8 A “Shadow of Our Former Glory”?

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Epilogue “Against Every Principle of Justice, Humanity, and Whatever is Allowed to be Right Among Mankind”

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Index

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