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Title Exclusionary empire : English liberty overseas, 1600-1900 / edited by Jack P. Greene
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages)
Contents The language of liberty in British North America, 1607-1776 / Elizabeth Mancke -- Liberty and slavery: the transfer of British liberty to the west Indies, 1627-1865 / Jack P. Greene -- Era of liberty: the politics of civil and political rights in eighteenth-century Ireland / James Kelly -- Liberty and modernity: the American revolution and the making of parliament's imperial history / Eliga H. Gould -- Federalism, democracy, and liberty in the new American nation / Peter S. Onuf -- Liberty, order, and pluralism: the Canadian experience / Philip Girard -- A bastard offspring of tyranny under the guise of liberty: liberty and representative government in Australia, 1788-1901 / Richard Waterhouse -- How much did institutions matter? Cloning Britain in New Zealand / James Belich -- The expansion of British liberties: the South African case / Christopher Saunders
Summary "Consisting of an introduction and ten chapters, Exclusionary Empire examines the transfer of English traditions of liberty and the rule of law overseas from 1600 to 1900"--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Political rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Rule of law -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
Civil rights -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
British colonies
Colonies -- Administration
Freiheitsrecht
Kolonie
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History
Subject Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Greene, Jack P
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