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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Evaluating Empire and Confronting Colonialism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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This volume comprehensively examines how metropolitan Britons spoke
and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth
century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following
several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as
a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and
powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas
territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years'
War produced a substantial critique of empire. This critique
evolved out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviours
exhibited by Britons overseas and built on a language of
'otherness' that metropolitans had used since the beginning of
overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies and
polities that Britons abroad constructed in their new habitats. It
used the languages of humanity and justice as standards to evaluate
and condemn the behaviours of both overseas Britons and subaltern
people in the British Empire, whether in India, the Americas,
Africa or Ireland.
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