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Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility (2018)
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Ince, O. U. (2018). Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility. History of Political Thought, 39(1), 107-137. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2971323

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought has recently been reclaimed as a robust, albeit short-lived, cosmopolitan critique of European imperialism. This essay complicates this interpretation through a study of David Hume’s reflections on commerce, e... Read More about Between Commerce and Empire: David Hume, Colonial Slavery, and Commercial Incivility.