Preface 1. Machiavelli's three desires: Florentine republicans on liberty, empire, and justice Mikael Hornqvist 2. Conquest and the just war: the 'School of Salamanca' and the 'affair of the Indies' Anthony Pagden 3. Alliances with infidels in the European imperial expansion Richard Tuck 4. John Locke: theorist of empire? David Armitage 5. Montesquieu on empire and enlightenment Michael Mosher 6. Edmund Burke on empire, self-understanding and sympathy Uday S. Mehta 7. Adam Smith in the British empire Emma Rothschild 8. Conquest, commerce, and cosmopolitanism in Enlightenment political thought Sankar Muthu 9. Liberalism, nation, and empire: the case of J. S. Mill Pratap Bhanu Mehta 10. Republicanism, liberalism, and empire in post-revolutionary France Jennifer Pitts 11. Colonies and empire in the political thought of Hegel and Marx Gabriel Paquette 12. Social theory in the age of empire Karuna Mantena 13. Political theory of empire and imperialism: an appendix Jennifer Pitts.
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