Colonies, Commerce, and Constitutional Law Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria and Other Writings on Spain and Spanish America

by Bentham, Jeremy; Schofield, Philip; Rosen, F.

• ISBN13: 9780198226123
• ISBN10: 0198226128
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This is a major theoretical analysis of the harmful effects of colonies on commerce and constitutional democracy, and is one of the most important studies of colonialism written in the nineteenth century. In these essays, Bentham provided a penetrating critique of colonialism from within the liberal utilitarian tradition.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Symbols and Abbreviations	p. xiii
Editorial Introduction	p. xv
Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria: Being the Advice of Jeremy Bentham as Given in a Series of Letters to the Spanish People	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Injury to Spain from the Claims in Her Name on Spanish Ultramaria	p. 23
Injury to Spanish Ultramaria from the Claims Made of Dominion Over Her in the Name of Spain	p. 154
Emancipation Spanish	p. 195
Summary of a Work Intituled Emancipate Your Colonies in a Letter from Philo-Hispanus to the Spanish People	p. 277
Observations on the Restrictive and Prohibitory Commercial System; Especially with a Reference to the Decree of the Spanish Cortes of July 1820	p. 345
Preface	p. 347
Index of Subjects	p. 385
Index of Names	p. 462
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