The Inner Life of Empires : : An Eighteenth-Century History / / Emma Rothschild.

They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 6 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Setting Out
  • Chapter Two. Coming Home
  • Chapter Three. Ending and Loss
  • Chapter Four. Economic Lives
  • Chapter Five. Experiences of Empire
  • Chapter Six. What is Enlightenment?
  • Chapter Seven. Histories of Sentiments
  • Chapter Eight. Other People
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Maps
  • Index