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A Taste for Empire and Glory Studies in British Overseas Expansion, 1600–1800
By Philip Lawson
Copyright 1997
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the decade and a half before his untimely death at 46, Philip Lawson had already achieved more than many historians. This posthumously published collection brings together his work on the British overseas expansion during the ’long’ 18th century and includes two previously unpublished essays. The first articles deal with general issues of approach and interpretation, with Canada and the... Read more
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.
Biography
Philip Lawson
'Historians of Hanoverian Britain and its empire will welcome this volume....' International History Review, Vol. XXI, No. 4 'By bringing together many of Lawson’s articles and essays, this volume serves a very useful purpose. It is an important book and deserves a broad readership.' Reviews in History
