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245 10 a| Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britainh| [electronic resource] /c| Jack P. Greene.;

260 a| Cambridge [England] ;a| New York :b| Cambridge University Press,;

300 a| xx, 385 p. ;c| 25 cm.;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 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,Ŵ 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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain / Jack P. Greene.

Author/creator	Greene, Jack P.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
Description	xx, 385 p. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Imperialism--Public opinion. --History. --18th century. Discourse analysis--History. --18th century. Great Britain--Colonies. --History. --18th century. Great Britain--Colonies. --Public opinion. --History.

Abstract	"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,Ŵ 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012021362
ISBN	9781107030558 (hardback)
ISBN	1107030552 (hardback)
ISBN	9781107682986 (paperback)
ISBN	1107682983 (paperback)

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