Zeitlin, Samuel Garrett;
(2023)
Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis.
Political Research Quarterly
, 76
(2)
pp. 1012-1023.
10.1177/10659129221121103.
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Abstract
The present article considers Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis against the backdrop of Bacon’s Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, one of Bacon’s least studied and most imperially audacious and bellicose texts. In the Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain, Bacon argues for a naval war and blockade of both the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish colonies in the Americas, advocating the British seizure of the latter. The article argues that the fulfillment of these imperials and colonial proposals is, in Bacon’s view, a prerequisite and presupposition of the action of Bacon’s New Atlantis.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Eutopia of Empire: Francis Bacon’s Short View and the Imperial and Colonial Background to the New Atlantis |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/10659129221121103 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/10659129221121103 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Francis Bacon, New Atlantis, political philosophy, war, empire, colonies |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10176527 |
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