×


 x 

Shopping cart
28%OFFEmma Rothschild - The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History - 9780691156125 - V9780691156125
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History

€ 37.99
€ 27.51
You save € 10.48!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 30. Weight in Grams: 576.
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. One of the sisters joined a rebel army, was ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
574g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156125
SKU
V9780691156125
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Emma Rothschild
Emma Rothschild is the Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History and director of the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, and a fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. She is the author of Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment.

Reviews for The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History
Winner of the 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award, Saltire Society One of The New Yorker's "Reviewer's Favorites" of 2011 Shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award in Nonfiction "The eleven Johnstone siblings of Westerhall, in Scotland, were 'a large and disorderly family,' whose lives, playing out on three continents between 1723 and 1813, illuminate ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!