Book description
An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light
"An important book . . . . Vaughn has greatly added to our understanding of Britain's empire and politics."-Journal of Modern HIstory
In this bold debut work, historian James M. Vaughn challenges the…
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Why did Britain’s empire take the form it did? It’s easy to assume that it all happened automatically—that Britain “conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind,” as the historian J.R. Seeley famously put it.
The Politics of Empire challenges that assumption, reconstructing the political movements and ideologies that led Britain to build a territorial empire in India—as well as the kinds of empire Britain chose not to build.
From Christian's list on the rise of the British Empire.
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