Empire and modern political thought

"This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire"

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Muthu, Sankar , 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press , c2012
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300 |a vi, 407 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Machiavelli's three desires: Florentine republicans on liberty, empire, and justice -- 2. Conquest and the just war: the "School of Salamanca" and the "affair of the Indies" -- 3. Alliances with infidels in the European imperial expansion Richard Tuck -- 4. John Locke: theorist of empire? -- 5. Montesquieu on empire and enlightenment -- 6. Edmund Burke on empire, self-understanding and sympathy -- 7. Adam Smith in the British empire -- 8. Conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment political thought -- 9. Liberalism, nation, and empire: the case of J. S. Mill -- 10. Republicanism, liberalism, and empire in post-revolutionary France -- 11. Colonies and empire in the political thought of Hegel -- 12. Social theory in the age of empire -- 13. Political theory of empire and imperialism: an appendix 
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650 0 |a Imperialism   |x Philosophy   |x History 
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