Collection of 15 essays originally published 1949-1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Imperium Romanum : empire and the language of power / J.S. Richardson -- Empire and union : two concepts of the early modern European political order / John Robertson -- The Habsburg world empire and the revival of Ghibellinism / John M. Headley -- The European debate on universal monarchy / Franz Bosbach -- Imperio particular e imperio universal en las Cartas de relación de Hernán Cortés / Victor Frankl -- The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers / John H. Elliott -- Dispossessing the barbarian : the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians / Anthony Pagden -- The ideology of English colonization : from Ireland to America / Nicholas P. Canny -- Sovereignty-association, 1500-1783 / W.J. Eccles -- Freitas versus Grotius / C.H. Alexandrowicz -- Millenarianism and empire : Portuguese Asian decline "crise de conscience" of the missionaries / G.D. Winius -- Power versuas objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centJacob Viner -- New wine in old skins? : American definitions of empireemergence of a new concept / Norbert Kilian -- Spain and the breakdownimperial ethos / Timothy E. Anna -- Aboriginal property and Western threcovering a middle ground / James Tully.
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