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Sir John Seeley is best known for his remark that the empire was acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness.
Author : Deborah Wormell
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 1980-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521227209
Sir John Seeley is best known for his remark that the empire was acquired in a fit of absent-mindedness.
Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1139482149
The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its power derived rather less from the assertion of imperial authority than from the fusing together of three different kinds of empire: the settler empire of the 'white dominions'; the commercial empire of the City of London; and 'Greater India' which contributed markets, manpower and military muscle. This unprecedented history charts how this intricate imperial web was first strengthened, then weakened and finally severed on the rollercoaster of global economic, political and geostrategic upheaval on which it rode from beginning to end.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521789783
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents a comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David Armitage traces the emergence of British imperial identity from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries, using a full range of manuscript and printed sources. By linking the histories of England, Scotland and Ireland with the history of the British Empire, he demonstrates the importance of ideology as an essential linking between the processes of state-formation and empire-building. This book sheds light on major British political thinkers, from Sir Thomas Smith to David Hume, by providing fascinating accounts of the 'British problem' in the early modern period, of the relationship between Protestantism and empire, of theories of property, liberty and political economy in imperial perspective, and of the imperial contribution to the emergence of British 'identities' in the Atlantic world.
Author : Ian Hesketh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442663596
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest. Ian Hesketh highlights how Ecce Homo's reception encapsulates how Victorians came to terms with rapidly changing religious views in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hesketh critically examines Seeley’s career and public image, and the publication and reception of his controversial work. Readers and commentators sought to discover the author’s identity in order to uncover the hidden meaning of the book, and this engendered a lively debate about the ethics of anonymous publishing. In Victorian Jesus, Ian Hesketh argues for the centrality of this moment in the history of anonymity in book and periodical publishing throughout the century.
Author : Niall Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1101548029
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author : Sir John Robert Seeley
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : Sir John Robert Seeley
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1866
Category :
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Author : John Seeley, M.A.
Publisher : Blue Moon Wonders
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 097659420X
Whether new to the journey of self-discovery or one who has already begun the journey, author John Seeley gives practical techniques to assist readers in the process of getting unstuck, reclaim a greater sense of personal power, and create a life they are truly meant to live.
Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
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Author : Ronald Hyam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521115221
A study of key themes in the history of the British Empire by one of the senior figures in the field.