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"
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New York :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 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