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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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