Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain /
Greene, Jack P.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2013.
'The principal cornucopia of Great Britain's wealth': the languages of commerce, liberty, security, and maritime supremacy and the celebration of empire -- Outposts of 'loose vagrant people': the language of alterity in the evaluation of empire -- 'A fabric at once the dread and wonder of the world': the languages of imperial grandeur, liberty, commerce, humanity, and justice and the American challenge to empire -- Arenas of 'Asiatic plunder': the languages of humanity and justice and the excesses of empire in India -- Sites of Creolean despotism: the languages of humanity and justice and the critique of colonial slavery and the African slave trade -- 'A fruitless, bloody, wasting war': the languages of imperial grandeur. Liberty, humanity, and commerce in the American conflict -- 'This voraginous gulph of Hibernian dependence': the languages of oppression, corruption, justice, liberty, and humanity and the identification of imperial excesses in Ireland -- A 'shadow of our former glory'?: The discussion of empire in the wake of American secession -- Epilogue: 'against every principle of justice, humanity, and whatever is allowed to be right among mankind': standards of humanity and the evaluation of empire.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imperialism
Discourse analysis