Empire and modern political thought / edited by Sankar Muthu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machiavelli's three desires: Florentine republicans on liberty, empire, and justice / Mikael H诲nqvist -- Conquest and the just war: the'School of Salamanca' and the'affair of the Indies' / Anthony Pagden -- Alliances with infidels in the European imperial expansion Richard Tuck -- John Locke: theorist of empire? / David Armitage -- Montesquieu on empire and enlightenment / Michael Mosher -- Edmund Burke on empire, self-understanding and sympathy / Uday S. Mehta -- Adam Smith in the British empire / Emma Rothschild -- Conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment political thought / Sankar Muthu -- Liberalism, nation, and empire: the case of J.S. Mill / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Republicanism, liberalism, and empire in postrevolutionary France / Jennifer Pitts -- Colonies and empire in the political thought of Hegel and Marx / Gabriel Paquette -- Social theory in the age of empire / Karuna Mantena -- Political theory of empire and imperialism: an appendix / Jennifer Pitts.

'This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire'-- Provided by publisher.