000887981 000__ 03116cam\a2200433\a\4500 000887981 001__ 887981 000887981 005__ 20210515172853.0 000887981 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000887981 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000887981 008__ 120525s2013\\\\enk\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000887981 010__ $$z 2012021362 000887981 020__ $$z9781107030558 000887981 020__ $$z1107030552 000887981 020__ $$z9781107682986 000887981 020__ $$z1107682983 000887981 020__ $$z9781139612937 $$q(electronic book) 000887981 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC1099936 000887981 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL1099936 000887981 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10695363 000887981 035__ $$a(CaONFJC)MIL485884 000887981 035__ $$a(OCoLC)843191689 000887981 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 000887981 043__ $$ae-uk--- 000887981 050_4 $$aDA480$$b.G73 2013 000887981 08204 $$a325/.34109033$$223 000887981 1001_ $$aGreene, Jack P. 000887981 24510 $$aEvaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain$$h[electronic resource] /$$cJack P. Greene. 000887981 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2013. 000887981 300__ $$axx, 385 p. 000887981 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000887981 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000887981 520__ $$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,ลด 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"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000887981 650_0 $$aImperialism$$xPublic opinion$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000887981 650_0 $$aDiscourse analysis$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000887981 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xColonies$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000887981 651_0 $$aGreat Britain$$xColonies$$xPublic opinion$$xHistory. 000887981 852__ $$bebk 000887981 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete $$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1099936$$zOnline Access 000887981 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:887981$$pGLOBAL_SET 000887981 980__ $$aEBOOK 000887981 980__ $$aBIB 000887981 982__ $$aEbook 000887981 983__ $$aOnline