British Colonial Theories 1570-1850 / / Klaus Knorr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Knorr, Klaus,
• MitwirkendeR: Innis, H. A.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Innis, Harold.
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1944
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (450 p.)

The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a selection of representative statements in the course of a discussion which proceeds by chronological periods and also by important topics from contemporary events. The original printing of this work, published in 1944, was received with enthusiastic reviews and went out of print in a few years. An equally warm welcome can be predicted now.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- PART I -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. COLONIAL THEORIES: 1570-1660 -- III. COLONIAL THEORIES: 1660-1776 -- IV. THE OLD COLONIAL SYSTEM: BASIC OBJECTIVES, CONCEPTIONS, POLICIES -- PART II -- V. INTRODUCTION -- VI. ADAM SMITH AND THE DISSENTERS -- VII. COLONIAL THEORIES: 1776-1815 -- VIII. BENTHAM, JAMES MILL, AND RICARDO -- IX. EMIGRATION AND COLONIZATION: 1815-1850 -- X. THE FALL OF THE OLD COLONIAL SYSTEM -- XI. SOME ADDITIONAL ITEMS IN THE BALANCE-SHEET OF IMPERIALISM -- XII. THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN -- XIII. THE PROBLEM OF CONVICT TRANSPORTATION -- XIV. A NOTE ON THE LAKE POETS AND THOMAS CARLYLE -- XV. THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THE EMPIRE -- INDEX OF NAMES -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS