The burdens of empire 1539 to the present
Despite the long history of debate and the recent resurgence of interest in empires and imperialism, no one seems very clear as to what exactly an empire is. The Burdens of Empire strives to offer not only a definition but also a working description. This book examines how empires were conceived by...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Defending empire : the "School of Salamanca" and the "Affair of the Indies"
- "Making barbarians into gentle peoples" : Alberico Gentili on the legitimacy of empire
- The peopling of the New World : ethnos, race and empire in the early modern world
- Conquest, settlement, purchase and concession : justifying the English occupation of the Americas
- Occupying the ocean : Hugo Grotius and Serafim de Freitas on the rights of discovery and occupation
- Cambiar su ser : reform to revolution in the political imaginary of the Ibero-American world
- From the "right of nations" to the "cosmopolitan right" : Immanuel Kant's law of continuity and the limits of empire
- "Savage impulse, civilised calculation" : conquest, commerce and the Enlightenment critique of empire
- Human rights, natural rights and Europe's imperial legacy