The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context)
"Winner of the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2000""The ideological Orgins of the British Empire provides a learned and stimulating contribution to a number of areas of scholarly inquiry...compelling."    Tearsheet From William and Mary QuarterlyThe book triumphantly provides a very obvious answer: the aspirations and experiences of the people of the British Isle shaped concepts of empire."    The International History Review Dec 2001"All readers will have their favorite sections of this engaging book."    Journal of Modern History"Armitage (Columbia Univ.) used some 200 books published in the British Isles between 1550 and 1750, in addition to manuscripts in English and Scottish archives, as sources for this erudite study of the conceptual underpinning of the transatlantic "first British empire"."    CHOICE March 2001