TY - BOOK AU - Muthu,Sankar TI - Empire and modern political thought SN - 9780521839426 (hbk.) PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Imperialism KW - Philosophy KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - 'This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire'-- ER -