The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820
The Royal Navy and the British Atlantic World, c. 1750-1820
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皇家海军和英国大西洋世界，c。
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10.1057/978-1-137-50765-5_5
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2016
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Petley C
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世纪，英国的爱国主义身份与英国的军事政策紧密相连。海军在这两方面都发挥了重要作用。18世纪的一个大西洋帝国愿景强调了海上殖民贸易与英国海军实力之间的相互联系。他们的论点是，英国的跨大西洋贸易，包括奴隶贸易，为英国海员提供了一个托儿所，英国作为欧洲主要大国的地位取决于殖民地商业和海军力量之间的联系。在世纪的大部分时间里，这构成了国家与帝国关系的主流观点。本章将在威廉·威尔伯福斯（William Wilberforce）等人阐述的英国爱国主义新愿景和废奴运动的背景下探讨这种帝国观，废奴运动开始质疑大西洋旧大英帝国的道德和爱国价值，从奴隶贸易和英国-加勒比种植园的奴隶种植糖贸易开始。
British patriotic identity and British military policy were closely entwined during the eighteenth century. The navy had a prominent role in both. One eighteenth-century vision of the Atlantic empire emphasised the interconnection between maritime colonial trade and British naval strength. The argument went that British transatlantic trade, including the slave trade, constituted a nursery for British seamen and that Britain’s status as a leading European power rested on the connection between colonial commerce and naval power. For much of the century, this constituted a dominant view of the relationship between nation and empire. This chapter explores that view of empire in the contexts of new visions of British patriotism, articulated by the likes of William Wilberforce, and the abolition movement, which began to question the morality and patriotic value of defining elements of the old British empire in the Atlantic, beginning with the slave trade and the commerce in slave-grown sugar from British-Caribbean plantations.