Lineages of Empire
The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9740221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Sartori (0000-0001-6025-8028, New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 515 |
| Pages | 1004-1006 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq189 |
| OpenAlex | W2077476207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Self-consciously located within the broader ‘imperial and archipelagic’ turn in British historiography, this volume of essays seeks to build on the deepening awareness of the centrality of empire to Britain's history in order to provide the foundations for a more substantive engagement with the political present. What exactly the ‘present’ of ‘our current predicament’ (p. xiii) and ‘recent global politics’ (p. xi) is remains rather vaguely defined in Duncan Kelly's introduction to the book; but in the end that might be a virtue, since in many ways the strongest essays in this stimulating and worthwhile volume are those least directly bound to its presentist agenda. In the essay that opens the volume, James Tully takes the presentist agenda very seriously indeed, outlining a long history of the development of the modalities of ‘informal empire’, which, he argues, the United States of America has inherited from British precedents. But Tully narrates a ‘lineage’ rather than a ‘genealogy’, so that the connections between contemporary global politics and the politics of British free-trade imperialism are identified as remarkably transparent and essentially continuous; so that the history of the British empire itself ends up, by extension, being one largely devoid of significant ideological contestation or structural discontinuities
Ancient history · Archaeology · British Empire · Empire · Historiography · Ideology · Imperial unit system · Political science · Politics · Presentism · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law
Liberalism, Diversity and Domination
Empire, sociality, and political economy in colonial Bengal
Empires, Famine, and the Significance of the Political Economy of Colonialism
Primitive Accumulation, New Enclosures, and Global Land Grabs
Adam Smith, Settler Colonialism, and Limits of Liberal Anti-imperialism
Bringing the Economy Back In
A Factory Afield
Liberty, Poverty and Charity in the Political Economy of Josiah Tucker and Joseph Butler
The Empire as a Social Machine
From "Chinese Colonist" to "Yellow Peril
Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,92 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |