Empire and modern political thought
By: edited by Sankar Muthu
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781107460034
Subjects: History; Philosophy; Imperialism
Description: "This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire"--
Notes: First published: 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machiavelli's three desires: Florentine republicans on liberty, empire, and justice / Mikael Hörnqvist; title: Conquest and the just war: the "School of Salamanca" and the "affair of the Indies" / Anthony Pagden; title: Alliances with infidels in the European imperial expansion Richard Tuck; title: John Locke: theorist of empire? / David Armitage; title: Montesquieu on empire and enlightenment / Michael Mosher; title: Edmund Burke on empire, self-understanding and sympathy / Uday S. Mehta; title: Adam Smith in the British empire / Emma Rothschild; title: Conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment political thought / Sankar Muthu; title: Liberalism, nation, and empire: the case of J.S. Mill / Pratap Bhanu Mehta; title: Republicanism, liberalism, and empire in postrevolutionary France / Jennifer Pitts; title: Colonies and empire in the political thought of Hegel and Marx / Gabriel Paquette; title: Social theory in the age of empire / Karuna Mantena; title: Political theory of empire and imperialism: an appendix / Jennifer Pitts.