Theories of empire, 1450-1800 / 
edited by David Armitage. 
 - Aldershot [England] :  Ashgate,  1998. 
 - xxxiii, 388 p. ;  25 cm. 
 - Expanding world ;  v. 20 .
<br/><br/> Collection of 15 essays originally published 1949-1995. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Imperium Romanum : empire and the language of power / J.S. Richardson -- Empire and union : two concepts of the political order in early modern Europe / 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 Carts de relacion de Hernan Cortes / Victor Frankl -- The seizure of overseas territories by European powers / J.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 Canny -- Sovereignty-association, 1500-1783 / W.J. Eccles -- Freitas versus Grotius / C.H. Alexandrowicz -- Millenarianism and empire : Portuguese Asian decline and the'crise de conscience' of the missionaries / G.D. Winius -- Power versus plenty as objectives of foreign policy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jacob Viner -- New wine in old skins? : American definitions of empire and the emergence of a new concept / Norbert Kilian -- Spain and the breakdown of the imperial ethos / Timothy E. Anna -- Aboriginal property and Western theory / James Tully. 
<br/><br/><br/>Includes one essay in Spanish. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0860785165  RM441.53 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97-043882 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Imperialism--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Europe--Territorial expansion.<br/>Europe--Colonies.<br/>Europe--Foreign relations.