Theories of empire, 1450-1800
By: edited by David Armitage.
Contributors: Armitage, David, 1965-
Series: Expanding world ;; v. 20
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Aldershot [England]; Brookfield, VT, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Imperialism -- History.; Europe -- Territorial expansion.; Europe -- Colonies.; Europe -- Foreign relations.
Notes: Includes one essay in Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection of 15 essays originally published 1949-1995.
Table of contents: title: Imperium Romanum : empire and the language of power / J.S. Richardson; title: Empire and union : two concepts of the political order in early modern Europe / John Robertson; title: The Habsburg world empire and the revival of Ghibellinism / John M. Headley; title: The European debate on universal monarchy / Franz Bosbach; title: Imperio particular e imperio universal en las Carts de relación de Hernán Cortés / Victor Frankl; title: The seizure of overseas territories by European powers / J.H. Elliott; title: Dispossessing the barbarian : the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians / Anthony Pagden; title: The ideology of English colonization : from Ireland to America / Nicholas Canny; title: Sovereignty-association, 1500-1783 / W.J. Eccles; title: Freitas versus Grotius / C.H. Alexandrowicz; title: Millenarianism and empire : Portuguese Asian decline and the "crise de conscience" of the missionaries / G.D. Winius; title: Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jacob Viner; title: New wine in old skins? : American definitions of empire and the emergence of a new concept / Norbert Kilian; title: Spain and the breakdown of the imperial ethos / Timothy E. Anna; title: Aboriginal property and Western theory / James Tully.