Exclusionary Empire

Herausgeber: Greene, Jack

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114981
• ISBN-10: 0521114985
• Artikelnr.: 26551624

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: empire and liberty Jack P. Greene; 1. The languages of liberty in British North America, 1607
1776 Elizabeth Mancke; 2. Liberty and slavery: the transfer of British liberty to the West Indies, 1627
1865 Jack P. Greene; 3. 'Era of liberty': the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland James Kelly; 4. Liberty and modernity: the American revolution and the making of Parliament's imperial history Eliga Gould; 5. Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation Peter S. Onuf; 6. Liberty in Canada, 'multiple subjects, multiple freedoms' Philip Girard; 7. Contested despotism; problems of liberty in British India Robert Travers; 8. '
a bastard of tyranny under the guise of liberty': liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788
1901 Richard Waterhouse; 9. How much did institutions matter?: cloning Britain in New Zealand James Belich; 10. The expansion of British liberty overseas: the South African case Christopher Saunders.