Patterns of Anti-Democratic Thought: An Analysis and a Criticism, with Special Reference to the American Political Mind in Recent Times

by David Spitz

Book Overview

How did contemporary English and European notions of sovereignty, empire, law and state formation impact upon English methods of settlement and governance in the Americas? Using documents such as travel narratives, promotional literature, colonial charters, maps, diplomatic correspondence and state papers, Ken MacMillan offers a major new study of legal imperialism under Queen Elizabeth and the early Stuarts. He argues that the imperial centre had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313223920
• ISBN13: 9780313223921
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"