Theories of empire, 1450-1800 - Armitage, David, 1965- (Aldershot [England] : Ashgate, 1998)
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.
Collection of 15 essays originally published 1949-1995.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes one essay in Spanish.
Keywords: Imperialism -- History; Europe -- Territorial expansion; Europe -- Colonies; Europe -- Foreign relations