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The ideological origins of the British Empire

Print Book, English, 2000
Cambridge University, Cambridge, 2000
xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
9780521590815, 9780521789783, 0521590817, 0521789788
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Introduction: state and empire in British history
The empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland and Ireland c. 1542-1612
Protestantism and empire: Hakluyt, Purchas and property
The empire of the seas, 1576-1689
Liberty and empire
The political economy of empire
Empire and ideology in the Walpolean era