num_pages: 258
description: David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a century, tracing the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. This book sheds new light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing novel 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 the British identity.
language: English
title: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
titlecomplete: The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 59)
characters: David Hume, Sir Thomas Smith
genres: History, 21st Century, Philosophy, European History, Politics, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 88
places: British Empire
series: Ideas in Context
publisher: Cambridge University Press