The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521590815
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Imperialism; History - General History; Colonies And Colonization; Politics/International Relations; British Isles; Political Science; Europe - Great Britain - General; History & Theory - General; World - Colonial Studies; Great Britain--Colonies--History; Political Science / History & Theory; Colonies; Great Britain; History
First sentence: By the second quarter of the eighteenth century, the British Empire comprehended the United Kingdom of great Britain, Ireland, the islands of the Caribbean and the British mainland colonies of North America.