Empire and modern political thought /
"This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire"--
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Empire and Modern Political Thought; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Machiavelli's Three Desires: Florentine Republicans on Liberty, Empire, and Justice; 2 Conquest and the Just War: The "School of Salamanca" and the "Affair of the Indies"; THE CATHOLIC MONARCHY; ON CONQUEST AND INTERVENTION; CREATING A UNIVERSAL IMPERIUM; 3Alliances with Infidels in the European ImperialExpansion; 4John LockeTheorist of Empire?; JOHN LOCKE, COLONIAL THINKER; THE LIMITS OF LOCKEAN UNIVERSALISM; LOCKE AND THE LEGITIMATION OF EMPIRE.
- 5 Montesquieu on Empire and EnlightenmentTHE WORTH OF EMPIRE; MONTESQUIEU'S PRELIMINARY UNDERSTANDING OF EMPIRE; "ORIENTAL" AND TROPICAL DESPOTISMS; ANTICOLONIALISM IN PERSIAN LETTERS; DESCARTES IN MEXICO; WOMEN AGAINST EMPIRE; ROME
- REPUBLICAN "PROJECT FOR INVADING ALL NATIONS"; THE COST OF MODERN EMPIRE; EMPIRE OF SECURITY: FIRST LOOPHOLE IN THE CASE AGAINST EMPIRE; EMPIRE OF HUMAN RIGHTS: SECOND LOOPHOLE IN THE CASE AGAINST EMPIRE; EMPIRE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: THIRD LOOPHOLE IN THE CASE AGAINST EMPIRE; ALEXANDER'S EMPIRE: MODEL FOR MODERNITY?; FORCE AND INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.
- EQUIVOCATION ON POLITICAL ECONOMYEMPIRES OF TRADE; TWO CONCLUSIONS REGARDING EMPIRES OF TRADE; 6 Edmund Burke on Empire, Self-Understanding, and Sympathy; THE BACKGROUND OF INVOLVEMENT; BRAIDED CONCERNS: BRITAIN AND INDIA; CONCLUSION: EMPIRE AND NATION; 7 Adam Smith in the British Empire; 8 Conquest, Commerce, and Cosmopolitanismin Enlightenment Political Thought; OCEANIC TIES AND THE UNIVERSAL SOCIETY OF HUMANITY; ENLIGHTENMENT ANXIETIES ABOUT GLOBAL INTERCONNECTIONS; RESPONDING TO THE PROBLEMS OF GLOBAL COMMERCE; BRITISH ANTISLAVERY ACTIVISTS AND THE SUGAR BOYCOTT.
- KANT: COSMOPOLITAN CONNECTIONS AND PRODUCTIVE RESISTANCE IN GLOBAL RELATIONS9 Liberalism, Nation, and Empire: The Case of J.S. Mill; MILL'S HISTORICAL SENSIBILITY; NATION AND NATIONALITY IN MILL'S THOUGHT; THE QUESTION OF CHARACTER; DISCIPLINE AND COMMERCE; CONCLUSION; 10 Republicanism, Liberalism, and Empire in Postrevolutionary France; CONSTANT AND CONQUEST; LIBERAL CRITICISM OF THE ALGERIAN CONQUEST; ALGERIA AND THE RISE OF IMPERIAL LIBERALISM; TOCQUEVILLE AND ALGERIA; NATION AND EMPIRE; 11 Colonies and Empire in the PoliticalThought of Hegel and Marx.
- HEGEL'S ANALYSIS OF COLONIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHTSCOTTISH POLITICAL ECONOMY AND HEGEL'S ANALYSIS OF COLONIALISM; MARX'S WRITINGS ON EMPIRE AND "MARXIAN" THEORIES OF IMPERIALISM: A TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP; MARX'S ANALYSIS OF COLONIES AND EMPIRE; CONCLUSION; 12 Social Theory in the Age of Empire; INTRODUCTION; THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN: THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL THEORY; INVENTING TRADITIONAL SOCIETY: MAINE AND THE COMPARATIVE IMAGINATION OF SOCIAL THEORY; MAINE AND LATE IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY; CONCLUSION; 13 Political Theory of Empire and Imperialism; HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT.
