Theories of Empire, 1450–1800

Contents: Introduction; Imperium Romanum: empire and the language of power, J. S. Richardson; Empire and union: two concepts of the early modern European political order, 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 Cartas de relación de Hernán Cortés, Victor Frankl; The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers, John 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 P. 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 17th and 18th 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: the problem of equality, Timothy E. Anna; Aboriginal property and western theory: recovering a middle ground, James Tully; Index.