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03029aam a2200409 a 4500 001 9EA3911CCCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130604010126 008 120525s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012021362 020 $a 1107682983 (paperback) 020 $a 9781107682986 (paperback) 020 $a 1107030552 (hardback) 020 $a 9781107030558 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)794838451 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d IG# $d YDXCP $d CDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA480 $b .G73 2013 082 00 $a 325/.34109033 $2 23 084 $a HIS015000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Greene, Jack P. 245 10 $a Evaluating empire and confronting colonialism in eighteenth-century Britain / $c Jack P. Greene. 260 $a Cambridge [England] ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2013. 300 $a xx, 385 p. ; $c 25 cm. 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,WÌ 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $x History $y 18th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History. $x Public opinion $x History. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Discourse analysis $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724071351.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210030054.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826072602.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9EA3911CCCDC11E29536ECE2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search