• DOI:10.1017/S0018246X13000101
Corpus ID: 159524069

ADAM SMITH AS ADVOCATE OF EMPIRE, c. 1870–1932

@article{Palen2014ADAMSA,
  title={ADAM SMITH AS ADVOCATE OF EMPIRE, c. 1870–1932},
  author={M. Palen},
  journal={The Historical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={57},
  pages={179-198}
}

M. Palen

Published 2014

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The Historical Journal

This article examines how The wealth of nations (1776) was transformed into an amorphous text regarding the imperial question throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adam Smith had left behind an ambiguous legacy on the subject of empire: a legacy that left long-term effects upon subsequent British imperial debates. In his chapter on colonies, Smith had proposed both a scheme for the gradual devolution of the British empire and a theoretical scheme for imperial federation… CONTINUE READING

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