Exclusionary empire : English liberty overseas, 1600-1900 / edited by Jack P. Greene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Greene, Jack P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political rights--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Political rights.

Rule of law--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Rule of law.

Civil rights--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Civil rights.

Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900. Each chapter is written by a noted specialist and focuses on a particular area of the settler empire - Colonial North America, the West Indies, Ireland, the early United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa - and on one non-settler colony, India. The book examines the ways in which the polities in each of these areas incorporated these traditions, paying particular attention to the extent to which these traditions were confined to the independent white male segments of society and denied to most others. This collection will be invaluable to all those interested in the history of colonialism, European expansion, the development of empire, the role of cultural inheritance in those histories, and the confinement of access to that inheritance to people of European descent.

Contents:

Introduction: Empire and liberty / Jack P. Greene

The language of liberty in British North America, 1607-1776 / Elizabeth Mancke

Liberty and slavery : the transfer of British liberty to the West Indies, 1627-1865 / Jack P. Greene

"Era of liberty" : the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly

Liberty and modernity : the American Revolution and the making of parliament's imperial history / Eliga H. Gould

Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation / Peter S. Onuf

Liberty, order, and pluralism : the Canadian experience / Philip Girard

Contested despotism : problems of liberty in British India / Robert Travers

"A bastard offspring of tyranny under the guise of liberty" : liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788-1901 / Richard Waterhouse

How much did institutions matter? Cloning Britain in New Zealand / James Belich

The expansion of British liberties : the South African case / Christopher Saunders.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20305-8

0-511-70018-0

1-282-38884-3

0-511-64118-4

9786612388842

0-511-80633-7

0-511-64186-9

0-511-63942-2

0-511-63835-3

0-511-64050-1

OCLC:

609846200