Author: Ernest BarkerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Imperial federation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Ideas and Ideals of the British Empire
Author: Ernest BarkerPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Imperial federation
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Ideas and Ideals of the British Empire
Author: E. BarkerThe Ideological Origins of the British Empire
Author: David ArmitagePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521789783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.
The Idea and Ideals of the British Empire
Author: Ernest BarkerThe Idea of Greater Britain
Author: Duncan BellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691151164
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and southern Africa. 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. Their proposals ranged from the fantastically ambitious--creating a globe-spanning nation-state--to the practical and mundane--reinforcing existing ties between the colonies and Britain. But all of these ideas were motivated by the disquiet generated by democracy, by challenges to British global supremacy, and by new possibilities for global cooperation and communication that anticipated today's globalization debates. Exploring attitudes toward the state, race, space, nationality, and empire, as well as highlighting the vital theoretical functions played by visions of Greece, Rome, and the United States, Bell illuminates important aspects of late-Victorian political thought and intellectual life.
Ideas and ideals of the British Empire
Author: Ernest BarkerThe Ideals of Empire
Author: Ewen GreenPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415194679
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
The Ideas and Ideals of Te British Empire
Author: Sir Ernest BarkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imperial federation
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The Ideas and Ideals of the British Empire ... Second Edition
Author: Sir Ernest BarkerIdeals Of Empire V2
Author: Ewen GreenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000560317
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
First published in 2004. This 6 volume set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Dubbed Idealists of Empire, they saw that the British Empire seemed to have no governing principles, no structure and no guiding ideals. Sir John Seeley's famous quote of 1883 sums up this view: 'we seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind'. The mission of the idealists was to find an Imperial solution to this problem. The idealists of Empire documented their findings as they looked more systematically at the Empire's external challenges and internal workings, in terms of politics, economics and strategy. The texts published in this collection represent their most important contributions to the early twentieth-century debate on the fate of the Empire. Volume 2 includes ‘Imperial Fiscal Reform (1903)’.