Making the British Empire, 1660-1800 by Jason Peacey

This collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the `cultural turn' in historical scholarship and the `new imperial history'. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developments across the empire, not least in terms of how they affected imperial `policy' and its implementation. It analyses a range of contemporary debates and ideas - political and intellectual as well as religious and administrative - relating to political economy, legal geography and sovereignty, as well as the messy realities of the imperial project, including the costs and losses of empire, collectively and individually. -- .
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