Daniel I. O`Neill
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520287822
- eISBN:
- 9780520962866
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520287822.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, this book turns that latter belief on its head. It shows that Burke ...
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Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, this book turns that latter belief on its head. It shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover—and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism—the book demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. Burke's logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between “civilized” societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing “savage” societies from their “civilized” counterparts. The book also shows that Burke's argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism.Less
Edmund Burke, long considered modern conservatism's founding father, is also widely believed to be an opponent of empire. However, this book turns that latter belief on its head. It shows that Burke was a passionate supporter and staunch defender of the British Empire in the eighteenth century, whether in the New World, India, or Ireland. Moreover—and against a growing body of contemporary scholarship that rejects the very notion that Burke was an exemplar of conservatism—the book demonstrates that Burke's defense of empire was in fact ideologically consistent with his conservative opposition to the French Revolution. Burke's logic of empire relied on two opposing but complementary theoretical strategies: Ornamentalism, which stressed cultural similarities between “civilized” societies, as he understood them, and Orientalism, which stressed the putative cultural differences distinguishing “savage” societies from their “civilized” counterparts. The book also shows that Burke's argument had lasting implications, as his development of these two justifications for empire prefigured later intellectual defenses of British imperialism.
Kevin P. McDonald
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520282902
- eISBN:
- 9780520958784
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520282902.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Over one thousand Atlantic-born pirates poured into the Indian Ocean in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, launching an informal global trade network that spanned the Atlantic and ...
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Over one thousand Atlantic-born pirates poured into the Indian Ocean in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, launching an informal global trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich trading world of the East Indies. This commerce was directed from neither London nor Lisbon, and neither by a chartered trade company nor by the state. Instead, colonial merchants in New York entered into an informal alliance with Euro-American pirates, who functioned as cross-cultural brokers in settlements they founded in Madagascar. This book explores a global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires, exposing the ways in which informal networks created by pirates and merchants enabled American colonists to attain their consumer desires for East India goods—including slaves. These slaves functioned both as commodities and laborers in this network, some eventually obtaining their freedom as a result of their participation in this Indo-Atlantic maritime world.Less
Over one thousand Atlantic-born pirates poured into the Indian Ocean in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, launching an informal global trade network that spanned the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, connecting the North American colonies with the rich trading world of the East Indies. This commerce was directed from neither London nor Lisbon, and neither by a chartered trade company nor by the state. Instead, colonial merchants in New York entered into an informal alliance with Euro-American pirates, who functioned as cross-cultural brokers in settlements they founded in Madagascar. This book explores a global trade network located on the peripheries of world empires, exposing the ways in which informal networks created by pirates and merchants enabled American colonists to attain their consumer desires for East India goods—including slaves. These slaves functioned both as commodities and laborers in this network, some eventually obtaining their freedom as a result of their participation in this Indo-Atlantic maritime world.
Rhetorics of Self-Making
Respectable Lives
Counterplay
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
Making Chastity Sexy
Image Brokers
Balancing on a Planet
Politicking and Emergent Media
From History to Theory
