Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery (Hardcover)
 
作者: P J Marshall 
分類: British & Irish history ,
History of the Americas ,
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 ,
Colonialism & imperialism ,
c 1700 to c 1800 ,
West Indies ,
British Empire  
書城編號: 1556329


售價: $1232.00

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出版社: Oxford University Press
出版日期: 2019/09/04
尺寸: 234x156x28mm
重量: 0.57 kg
ISBN: 9780198841203
 
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商品簡介
Edmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day-to-day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies, which featured so largely in British concerns in the later eighteenth century. Initially, Burke saw the islands as a means by which his close connections might make their fortunes, later he was concerned with them as a great asset to be managed in the national interest, and, finally, he became a participant in debates about the slave trade.

This volume adds a new dimension to assessments of Burke's views on empire, hitherto largely confined to Ireland, India, and America, and explores the complexities of his response to slavery. The system outraged his abundantly attested concern for the suffering caused by abuses of British power overseas, but one which he also recognised to be fundamental for sustaining the wealth generated by the West Indies, which he deemed essential to Britain's national power. He therefore sought compromises in the gradual reform of the system rather than immediate abolition of the trade or emancipation of the slaves.

P J Marshall 作者作品表

Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery (Hardcover)

Making and Unmaking of Empires (Paperback)

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