British Empire and Political Culture

British Empire and Political Culture 

British political culture in the 18th century is always a hot topic for those who want to understand the British imperial history. Here are some classical books below I want to share them with you. These books are very illumilating, everytime when I read them, they can always give me new understandings of British political culture. I hope them can also help you.

Armitage, David. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Colley, Linda. In Defiance of Oligarchy: the Tory Party, 1714-60 (Cambridge: 

Cambridge University Press, 1982)

Dickinson, H. T. The Politics of the People in Eighteenth Century Britain (New York: ST. Martin's Press, 1995)

Dickinson, H. T. Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers, 1977. 

Gould, Eliga H. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the

American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Wilson, Kathleen. The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in

England, 1715-1785 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.