zoom session. the empires

31 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras

The empires and the building of imperial ideology.

1.       The British Empire:
a) The American colonies: their foundation due to varied political and/or religious differendoes with the then current powers. 

The first colonies. The voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers to Plymouth.  The chartered colonies and their adopted political systems: from Virginia Puritanical rule to democratic Pennsylvania. 

2.       Adam Smith’s position agaisnt the dominant enthusiasm on the building of the modern empires. Approach of chapter “of the Motives for establishing new Colonies”, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776. Anthology, pp. 177-183.