Sarah Irving

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317315216
• Artikelnr.: 43977041

Autorenporträt

Sarah Irving

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 'In a Pure Soil': Francis Bacon's Empire of Knowledge
Chapter 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle's Pansophical Empire
Chapter 3 Robert Boyle's Protestant Colonial Project
Chapter 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World
Chapter 5 John Locke's Language of Empire
Chapter 6 Conclusion