"Bourgeois Radicalism and the British Empire of Liberty w/James Vaughn (2/03/2020 interview)

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Published 2024-05-01

Platypus member Matt Cavagrotti interviews fellow Platypus member and historian James Vaughn on radicalism in the early modern period. Dr. Vaughn is the author of The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain's Imperial State (Yale UP, 2019), which provides a revisionist account of British imperial expansion and politics during the eighteenth century. [www.amazon.com/Politics-Empire-Accession-George-Ei…]

This interview was originally recorded for but only partially released by Zer0 Books
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All Comments (4)

@Theoreme.de.Gudule 1 month ago

Brilliant! Shouldn't I buy the 2019 book Envisioning Empire first on this topic?
@0MVR_0 1 month ago

The proposed left-wing of the elder Pitt whig's also adopted the terminology of their isle counterparts specifically through the emphasis as a party of patriots, namely patriarchs of production or ownership. The quote "tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" was concerned with how best to export the colonial model for the [european] continent, as Jefferson was talking, at the time, about the Dutch republican rebels in opposition to monarchy, not Americans.
@Blunderbird 1 month ago

Genghis Khan built an empire of liberty for mongols.