Between commerce and empire: David Hume, colonial slavery, and commercial incivility

• Main Author: INCE, Onur Ulas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Liberalism; empire; capitalism; colonialism; slavery; commerce; Enlightenment; David Hume; Adam Smith; Political Economy; Political Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research_all/9; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=soss_research_all
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought has recently been reclaimed as arobust, albeit short-lived, cosmopolitan critique of European imperialism. Thisessay complicates this interpretation through a study of David Hume’s reflectionson commerce, empire, and slavery. I argue that while Hume condemned...