| 000 | 02940nam a2200361Ki 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | ocn841809956 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20240726105321.0 | ||
| 008 | 130506s2013 enk ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 040 |
_aNT _beng _erda _cNT |
||
| 020 |
_a9781139625951 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk. |
||
| 043 | _ae-uk--- | ||
| 050 | 0 | 4 |
_aDA480 _b.E935 2013 |
| 049 | _aNTA | ||
| 100 | 1 |
_aGreene, Jack P. _e1 |
|
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aEvaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century BritainJack P. Greene. |
| 260 |
_aCambridge [England] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2013. |
||
| 300 | _a1 online resource (xx, 385 pages) | ||
| 336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
| 337 |
_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
||
| 338 |
_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
||
| 347 |
_adata file _2rda |
||
| 520 | 0 |
_a"This volume comprehensively examines the ways metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years,ลด War produced a substantial critique of empire. Evolving out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviors exhibited by many groups of Britons overseas and building on a language of "otherness" that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies, and polities that Britons abroad had constructed in their new habitats, this critique used the languages of humanity and justice as standards by which to evaluate and condemn the behaviors, in turn, of East India Company servants, American slaveholders, Atlantic slave traders, Irish pensioners, absentees, oppressors of Catholics, and British political and military leaders during the American War of Independence. Although this critique represented a massive contemporary condemnation of British colonialism and manifested an impulse among metropolitans to distance themselves from imperial excesses, the benefits of empire were far too substantial to permit any turning away from it, and the moment of sensibility waned"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
|
| 504 | _a2 | ||
| 530 |
_a2 _ub |
||
| 650 | 0 |
_aImperialism _xPublic opinion _xHistory _y18th century. |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aDiscourse analysis _xHistory _y18th century. |
|
| 655 | 1 | _aElectronic Books. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 |
_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=508911&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password |
| 942 |
_cOB _D _eEB _hDA _m2013 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC |
||
| 994 |
_a02 _bNT |
||
| 999 |
_c96326 _d96326 |
||
| 902 |
_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell |
||