Elites, enterprise and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775
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Elites, enterprise and the making of the British overseas empire, 1688-1775
Macmillan , St. Martin's, 1996
- : us
- : uk
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Bibliography: p. 237-251
Includes index
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Description
This book examines the cultural, economic, and social forces that shaped the development of the British empire in the eighteenth century. The empire is placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the 'fiscal-military state', and 'gentlemanly capitalism'. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.
Table of Contents
Preface - Abbreviations - PART 1: CONTEXTS AND CONTOURS - Historians and the Eighteenth-Century Empire - The Dynamics of Expansion - PART 2: METROPOLITAN ELITES AND THE OVERSEAS EMPIRE - Gentlemen and Entrepreneurs: Landowners, Merchants, and Bankers - Investment in Empire - PART 3: OVERSEAS ELITES IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE - Imperial Ties and the Anglicization of the Overseas Empire - Merchants, Planters, and the Gentlemanly Ideal - PART 4: A NEW IMPERIAL ORDER, 1750-75 - The End of the English Empire - Enterprise and Expansion: Drawing a Line - Afterword - Bibliography - Index
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