How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in
England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert
scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power
base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America,
Africa, and Asia, tightened control over existing territories, and
endorsed systems of slave labor to boost colonial prosperity. But
English power was precarious, and colonial designs were subject to
regular defeats and failed experimentation. Recovering from recent
Civil Wars at home, England itself was shaken by unrest and
upheaval through the later seventeenth century. Colonial policies
emerged from a kingdom riven with inner tensions, which it exported
to enclaves overseas. Â Gabriel Glickman reinstates the
colonies within the domestic history of Restoration England. He
shows how the pursuit of empire raised moral and ideological
controversies that divided political opinion and unsettled many
received ideas of English national identity. Overseas ambitions
disrupted bonds in Europe and cast new questions about English
relations with Scotland and Ireland. Vigorous debates were provoked
by contact with non-Christian peoples and by changes brought to
cultural tastes and consumer habits at home. England was becoming
an imperial nation before it had acquired a secure territorial
empire. The pressures of colonization exerted a decisive influence
over the wars, revolutions, and party conflicts that destabilized
the later Stuart kingdom.
General
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History |
| Release date: |
February 2023 |
| Authors: |
Gabriel Glickman
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
416 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-300-25506-5 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-300-25506-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780300255065 |
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