The inner life of empires : an eighteenth-century history / Emma Rothschild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rothschild, Emma, 1948-

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnston family.

Great Britain--Colonies.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Scotland--Biography.

Scotland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 483 pages) : maps

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2011]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. And they were all from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones-four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. They embodied the connections between European, American, and Asian empires. Their family history offers insights into a time when distinctions between public and private, home and overseas, and slavery and servitude were in constant flux. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: IDEAS AND SENTIMENTS; CHAPTER ONE: SETTING OUT; CHAPTER TWO: COMING HOME; CHAPTER THREE: ENDING AND LOSS; CHAPTER FOUR: ECONOMIC LIVES; CHAPTER FIVE: EXPERIENCES OF EMPIRE; CHAPTER SIX: WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT?; CHAPTER SEVEN: HISTORIES OF SENTIMENTS; CHAPTER EIGHT: OTHER PEOPLE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; APPENDIX; ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; MAPS; INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-462) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rothschild, Emma, 1948- Inner life of empires.

ISBN:

9781400838165

1400838169

Publisher Number:

99983999845

40019477520

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.