Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Saved in:
| Title: | 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. |
| Authors: | Jack P. Greene |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Imperialism--Public opinion--History--18th century, Discourse analysis--History--18th century |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| FullText | Links: – Type: ebook-pdf Text: Availability: 0 |
|---|---|
| Header | DbId: nlebk DbLabel: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) An: 508911 RelevancyScore: 1051 AccessLevel: 6 PubType: eBook PubTypeId: ebook PreciseRelevancyScore: 1050.81640625 |
| IllustrationInfo | |
| ImageInfo | – Size: thumb Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$508911$PDF&s=r – Size: medium Target: https://rps2images.ebscohost.com/rpsweb/othumb?id=NL$508911$PDF&s=d |
| Items | – Name: Title Label: Title Group: Ti Data: Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain – Name: Abstract Label: Description Group: Ab Data: 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. – Name: Author Label: Authors Group: Au Data: <searchLink fieldCode="AR" term="%22Jack+P%2E+Greene%22">Jack P. Greene</searchLink> – Name: TypePub Label: Resource Type Group: TypPub Data: eBook. – Name: Subject Label: Subjects Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Imperialism--Public+opinion--History--18th+century%22">Imperialism--Public opinion--History--18th century</searchLink><br /><searchLink fieldCode="DE" term="%22Discourse+analysis--History--18th+century%22">Discourse analysis--History--18th century</searchLink> – Name: SubjectBISAC Label: Categories Group: Su Data: <searchLink fieldCode="ZK" term="%22POLITICAL+SCIENCE+%2F+Colonialism+%26+Post-Colonialism%22">POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism</searchLink> |
| PLink | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=nlebk&AN=508911 |
| RecordInfo | BibRecord: BibEntity: Classifications: – Code: 325.34109033 Scheme: ddc Type: prePub Languages: – Code: eng Text: English Subjects: – SubjectFull: Imperialism--Public opinion--History--18th century Type: general – SubjectFull: Discourse analysis--History--18th century Type: general Titles: – TitleFull: Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain Type: main BibRelationships: HasContributorRelationships: – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Jack P. Greene – PersonEntity: Name: NameFull: Jack P. Greene IsPartOfRelationships: – BibEntity: Dates: – D: 01 M: 01 Type: published Y: 2013 – D: 04 M: 02 Type: profile Y: 2014 Identifiers: – Type: isbn-print Value: 9781107030558 – Type: isbn-electronic Value: 9781139625951 Titles: – TitleFull: Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain Type: main |
| ResultId | 1 |
