The Ideals of Empire: Political and Economic Thought, 1903 - 1913
In The Idea of Greater Britain, Duncan Bell analyzes this fertile yet neglected debate, examining how a wide range of thinkers conceived of this vast "Anglo-Saxon" political community.
... the nadir for pro - union sentiment on both sides of the Irish Sea ' , Irish unionists did appeal to a conception of the British Empire cast in the idiom of political economy 34 For example , Samuel Madden lamented the fact that ...
Visions of Empire looks at their rulers, shedding critical new light on who they were, how they justified their empires, how they viewed themselves, and the styles of rule they adopted toward their subjects.
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This book tells the dramatic story of how the British Empire and its demise accelerated and strengthened globalization by creating webs of commerce, migration, and cultural exchange that linked Britons and their former subjects in new ways ...
Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its...
It was built by an incredible array of swashbuckling soldiers and sailors, pirates and adventurers who finally get their due in H. W. Crocker III's panoramic and provocative view of four hundred years of history that will delight and amuse, ...
2, 174; Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker, London Lives: Poverty, Crime, and the Making of the Modern City (Cambridge, 2016), 349; Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 2006), ...
515 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, II, 17, 49, 633, 634 Johnston, Colonel George Napier: diaiy. 274~5 Johnston, Sir Harry, 200-1, 203, 207, 260. 356 Johore, Sultan of, 427—8 Jones, Arthur Creech, 454, 457, 484, 524-5 Jones, Sir William, 38, 53, ...