The Expansion of England. Two Courses of Lectures.

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First edition, examining the history of the British Empire and calling for a more active imperial strategy. The work proved a popular success and a major influence on British imperial thought and action. It contains the much-quoted statement "we seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind" (p. 8). Seeley delivered his two lectures in Cambridge in the autumn of 1881 and the spring of 1882. The lectures were then substantially modified and published in the present form. Seeley "demanded a 'single conception' of English history, namely 'that the European policy and colonial policy are but different aspects of the same great national development'. Seeley's profound reflexions on the magnitude, the responsibilities and the obligations of empire-building did not prevent the book from being perverted into the bible of those 'bombastic' imperialists upon whom Seeley directed his sharpest strictures" (PMM). Printing and the Mind of Man 369. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Contemporary pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper. Very light soiling to cloth and wear to a tip, light foxing to endpapers, else contents clean; a very good copy. N° de ref. del artículo 159394

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