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Britannia's Auxiliaries - Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800 (Hardcover)
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Britannia's Auxiliaries - Continental Europeans and the British Empire, 1740-1800 (Hardcover)
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Britannia's Auxiliaries provides the first wide-ranging attempt to
consider the continental European contribution to the
eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many
European inputs - financial, material, and, perhaps most
importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in different
British imperial sites as soldiers, settlers, scientists, sailors,
clergymen, merchants, and technical experts. They also sustained
the empire from outside - through their financial investments,
their consumption of British imperial goods, their supply of
European products, and by aiding British imperial communication.
Continental Europeans even provided Britons with social support
from their own imperial bases. The book explores the means by which
continental Europeans came to play a part in British imperial
activity at a time when, at least in theory, overseas empires were
meant to be exclusionary structures, intended to serve national
purposes. It looks at the ambitions of the continental Europeans
themselves, and at the encouragement given to their participation
by both private interests in the British Empire and by the British
state. Despite the extensive involvement of continental Europeans,
the empire remained essentially British. Indeed, the empire seems
to have changed the Europeans who entered it more than they changed
the empire. Many of them became at least partly Anglicized by the
experience, and even those who retained their national character
usually came under British direction and control. This study, then,
qualifies recent scholarly emphasis on the transnational forces
that undermined the efforts of imperial authorities to maintain
exclusionary empires. In the British case, at least, the state
seems, for the most part, to have managed the process of
continental involvement in ways that furthered British interests.
In this sense, those foreign Europeans who involved themselves in
or with the British Empire, whatever their own perspective, acted
as Britannia's auxiliaries.
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