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020			_z9781107030558 (hardback)
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100	1		_aGreene, Jack P.
245	1	0	_aEvaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain _h[electronic resource] / _cJack P. Greene.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axx, 385 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This volume comprehensively examines the ways metropolitan Britons spoke and wrote about the British Empire during the short eighteenth century, from about 1730 to 1790. The work argues that following several decades of largely uncritical celebration of the empire as a vibrant commercial entity that had made Britain prosperous and powerful, a growing familiarity with the character of overseas territories and their inhabitants during and after the Seven Years,W War produced a substantial critique of empire. Evolving out of a widespread revulsion against the behaviors exhibited by many groups of Britons overseas and building on a language of "otherness" that metropolitans had used since the beginning of overseas expansion to describe its participants, the societies, and polities that Britons abroad had constructed in their new habitats, this critique used the languages of humanity and justice as standards by which to evaluate and condemn the behaviors, in turn, of East India Company servants, American slaveholders, Atlantic slave traders, Irish pensioners, absentees, oppressors of Catholics, and British political and military leaders during the American War of Independence. Although this critique represented a massive contemporary condemnation of British colonialism and manifested an impulse among metropolitans to distance themselves from imperial excesses, the benefits of empire were far too substantial to permit any turning away from it, and the moment of sensibility waned"-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aImperialism _xPublic opinion _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aDiscourse analysis _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xHistory _y18th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xColonies _xPublic opinion _xHistory.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
710	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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