Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-85196-889-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Empires in Perspective

Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irving, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 ‘In a Pure Soil’: Francis Bacon’s Empire of Knowledge; Chapter 2 Restoring Eden in America: The Hartlib Circle’s Pansophical Empire; Chapter 3 Robert Boyle’s Protestant Colonial Project; Chapter 4 The Royal Society and the Atlantic World; Chapter 5 John Locke’s Language of Empire; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Irving