Armitage, David

T435

The ideological origins of the British Empire / David Armitage. . — Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000..

xi, 239 p. 24 cm.

Introduction: state and empire in British history -- The empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Ireland c. 1542-1612 -- Protestantism and empire: Hakluyt, Purchas and property -- The empire of the seas, 1576-1689 -- Liberty and empire -- The political economy of empire -- Empire and ideology in the Walpolean era.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Political science--History.--Great Britain

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Colonies--History.