A taste for Empire and glory : studies in British overseas expansion, 1660-1800 /: studies in British overseas expansion, 1660-1800. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Works.
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Philip Lawson, David Cannadine, Ken Munro.
• Authors: Lawson, Philip, 1949-1995
• Editors: Cannadine, David, 1950-; Munro, Kenneth J
• Contents: Contents: Philip Lawson’s major publications, 1980-1995; The missing link: the imperial dimension in understanding Hanoverian Britain; Hanoverian studies: the impact of recent trends on parliamentary history; ’Arts and empire equally extend’: tradition, prejudice and assumption in the 18th-century press coverage of empire; ’The Irishman’s prize’: views of Canada from the British press, 1760-1774; A perspective on British history and the treatment of Quebec; ’Sapped by corruption’: British governance of Quebec and the breakdown of Anglo-American relations on the eve of revolution; George Grenville and America: the years of opposition 1765-1770; British traditions and revolutionary America; Anatomy of a civil war: new perspectives on England in the age of the American Revolution, 1767-82; Parliament and the first East India Inquiry, 1767; Robert Clive, the ’black jagir’, and British politics; ’Our Execrable Banditti’: perceptions of Nabobs in mid 18th-century Britain; Sources, schools and separation: the many faces of parliament’s role in Anglo-American history to 1783; Tea, vice and the English state, 1660-1784; Women and the empire of tea: image and counter-image in Hanoverian England; Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 325.341; World politics -- To 1900; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000164411; 9781000164374; 9781000164398; 9781003082071
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