Evaluating Empire And Confronting Colonialism In Eighteenth Century Britain

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
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Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139620376

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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Jack P. Greene Pdf

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.

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113961665X

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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Jack P. Greene Pdf

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790.

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107030558

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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Jack P. Greene Pdf

This book analyzes how Britons celebrated and critiqued their empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. It focuses on the emergence of an early awareness of the undesirable effects of British colonialism on both overseas Britons and subaltern people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas, Africa, or Ireland.

Author : Stephen H. Gregg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137039613

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Empire and Identity by Stephen H. Gregg Pdf

This anthology of primary material brings together literary and non-literary texts from the 18th century focusing on issues including commerce and colonialism. Britons' sense of identity in the 18th century see-sawed between embattled vulnerability and unassailable supremacy. Empire was crucial in shaping this, but contact with other peoples often threw into sharp relief or transformed this sense of identity. This book will be an essential resource for those studying this period; it traces these shifts in mood and the impact of imperial encounters in a variety of material, including poems, plays, speeches, letters, and accounts of travel, exploration and captivity.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039884

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The British Empire by Jeremy Black Pdf

What was the course and consequence of the British Empire? The rights and wrongs, strengths and weaknesses of empire are a major topic in global history, and deservedly so. Focusing on the most prominent and wide-ranging empire in world history, the British empire, Jeremy Black provides not only a history of that empire, but also a perspective from which to consider the issues of its strengths and weaknesses, and rights and wrongs. In short, this is history both of the past, and of the present-day discussion of the past, that recognises that discussion over historical empires is in part a reflection of the consideration of contemporary states. In this book Professor Black weaves together an overview of the British Empire across the centuries, with a considered commentary on both the public historiography of empire and the politically-charged character of much discussion of it. There is a coverage here of social as well as political and economic dimensions of empire, and both the British perspective and that of the colonies is considered. The chronological dimension is set by the need to consider not only imperial expansion by the British state, but also the history of Britain within an imperial context. As such, this is a story of empires within the British Isles, Europe, and, later, world-wide. The book addresses global decline, decolonisation, and the complex nature of post-colonialism and different imperial activity in modern and contemporary history. Taking a revisionist approach, there is no automatic assumption that imperialism, empire and colonialism were ’bad’ things. Instead, there is a dispassionate and evidence-based evaluation of the British empire as a form of government, an economic system, and a method of engagement with the world, one with both faults and benefits for the metropole and the colony.

Author : Tillman W. Nechtman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521763530

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Nabobs by Tillman W. Nechtman Pdf

This book considers the controversy caused by 'nabobs', and the debate regarding British identity and British imperialism in the late eighteenth century.

Author : David Kenneth Fieldhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Colonies
ISBN : UOM:39015003499350

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The Colonial Empires by David Kenneth Fieldhouse Pdf

Discusses colonies before 1815 including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British colonies in the Americas and the events leading to their disolution. Then discusses colonies of the British, French, Dutch, Russians, Portuguese, Belgians, Germans and Americans in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific

Author : Lynn Festa
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801884306

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Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France by Lynn Festa Pdf

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Author : Kathleen Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0521007968

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A New Imperial History by Kathleen Wilson Pdf

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Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847252432

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Crisis of Empire by Jeremy Black Pdf

A new account of the changing relationship between Britain and America in the 18th Century that helped to define both nations.

Author : Chloe Northrop
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003837367

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Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica by Chloe Northrop Pdf

White women who inhabited the West Indies in the eighteenth century fascinated metropolitan observers. In popular prints, novels, and serial publications, these women appeared to stray from "proper" British societal norms. Although many women who lived in the Caribbean island of Jamaica might have fit the model, extant writings from Ann Brodbelt, Sarah Dwarris, Margaret and Mary Cowper, Lady Maria Nugent, and Ann Appleton Storrow show a longing to remain connected with metropolitan society and their loved ones separated by the Atlantic. Sensibility and awareness of metropolitan material culture masked a lack of empathy towards subordinates and opened the white women in these islands to censure. Novels and popular publications portrayed white women in the Caribbean as prone to overconsumption, but these women seem to prize items not for their inherent value. They treasured items most when they came from beloved connections. This colonial interchange forged and preserved bonds with loved ones and comforted the women in the West Indies during their residence in these sugar plantation islands. This book seeks to complicate the stereotype of insensibility and overconsumption that characterized the perception of white women who inhabited the British West Indies in the long eighteenth century. This book will appeal to students and researchers alike who are interested in the social and cultural history of British Jamacia and the British West Indies more generally.

Author : David K. Fieldhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Colonies
ISBN : 0385281994

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The Colonial Empires by David K. Fieldhouse Pdf

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296952

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Jamaica in the Age of Revolution by Trevor Burnard Pdf

A renowned historian offers novel perspectives on slavery and abolition in eighteenth-century Jamaica Between the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756 and the onset of the French Revolution in 1789, Jamaica was the richest and most important colony in British America. White Jamaican slaveowners presided over a highly productive economic system, a precursor to the modern factory in its management of labor, its harvesting of resources, and its scale of capital investment and ouput. Planters, supported by a dynamic merchant class in Kingston, created a plantation system in which short-term profit maximization was the main aim. Their slave system worked because the planters who ran it were extremely powerful. In Jamaica in the Age of Revolution, Trevor Burnard analyzes the men and women who gained so much from the labor of enslaved people in Jamaica to expose the ways in which power was wielded in a period when the powerful were unconstrained by custom, law, or, for the most part, public approbation or disapproval. Burnard finds that the unremitting war by the powerful against the poor and powerless, evident in the day-to-day struggles slaves had with masters, is a crucial context for grasping what enslaved people had to endure. Examining such events as Tacky's Rebellion of 1760 (the largest slave revolt in the Caribbean before the Haitian Revolution), the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong in 1783 in an Atlantic context, Burnard reveals Jamiaca to be a brutally effective and exploitative society that was highly adaptable to new economic and political circumstances, even when placed under great stress, as during the American Revolution. Jamaica in the Age of Revolution demonstrates the importance of Jamaican planters and merchants to British imperial thinking at a time when slavery was unchallenged.

Author : Stephen H. Gregg
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781403921413

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Empire and Identity by Stephen H. Gregg Pdf

Offering a clear introduction to the field and reflecting the latest research, this book brings together a wide range of 18th century texts and materials, including poems, plays, speeches and letters. The format is easy-to-use and contains helpful suggestions for further reading.

Author : Brooke N. Newman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300225556

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A Dark Inheritance by Brooke N. Newman Pdf

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain’s most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, this book explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status. Brooke Newman reveals the centrality of notions of blood and blood mixture to evolving racial definitions and sexual practices in colonial Jamaica and to legal and political debates over slavery and the rights of imperial subjects on both sides of the Atlantic. Weaving together a diverse range of sources, Newman shows how colonial racial ideologies rooted in fictions of blood ancestry at once justified permanent, hereditary slavery for Africans and barred members of certain marginalized groups from laying claim to British liberties on the basis of hereditary status. This groundbreaking study demonstrates that challenges to an Atlantic slave system underpinned by distinctions of blood had far-reaching consequences for British understandings of race, gender, and national belonging.