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Trade, politics and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire: The networks of John Knight and Robert Craggs Nugent.

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Title/Author:	Trade, politics and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire: The networks of John Knight and Robert Craggs Nugent./
Author:	Schultes, Cynthia M.
Description:	394 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4831.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3289409
ISBN:	9780549336785

Trade, politics and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire: The networks of John Knight and Robert Craggs Nugent.
Schultes, Cynthia M.

Trade, politics and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire: The networks of John Knight and Robert Craggs Nugent. - 394 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4831.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The George Washington University, 2007.

This study examines the business, political and social networks of John Knight (c. 1686-1733) and Robert Craggs Nugent (1702-88). These two men---connected to each other by their marriages to the heiress Anne Craggs (c. 1686-1756)---had important ties to the eighteenth-century British empire. Knight, a City of London financier, made a fortune in joint-stock companies such as the English East India Company, the Royal African Company and the South Sea Company. He served as Royal African Company director (1716-22) and British Leeward Islands secretary (1718-22) and invested in land on the West Indian island of Tobago and in Pennsylvania. The financier used his imperial profits to purchase land and political interests, which Robert Nugent eventually inherited. For Nugent, a member of the Irish gentry who renounced Catholicism for Protestantism and moved to Britain to seek better opportunities, this inheritance provided his entree into the social world of the British landed interest; politically, it formed the foundation of a parliamentary and literary career devoted to expanding Britain's imperial trade, lifting economic restraints on his native Ireland and extolling his newly found Protestant beliefs as well as his concept of an all encompassing British identity.

ISBN: 9780549336785Subjects--Topical Terms:

626624
History, Asia, Australia and Oceania.

Trade, politics and identity in the eighteenth-century British empire: The networks of John Knight and Robert Craggs Nugent.
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520 $a Demonstrating how the ties of friendship, familial affection, patronage, mutual obligation and a growing sense of imperial identity helped these elites to function within the context of the global institutions that were the foundation of the eighteenth-century British imperial system, this study heeds the call of British Atlanticist historians for a closer examination of the core-periphery (Britain-colonies) relationship. It also draws on the vast body of imperial scholarship that focuses on the "long eighteenth century" and the dynamic forces that made possible the steady expansion of British power throughout the period. Knight and Nugent played their part in this imperial success, though Knight has never been looked at, and Nugent, never through the lens of empire. The personal and career trajectories of John Knight and Robert Nugent reveal the synchronicity of all the vastly different, yet interconnected regions of the eighteenth-century British empire, and ultimately, the origins of the global society in which we live today.
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