Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Jack P. Greene

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107030552
• ISBN13: 9781107030558
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"