1Adam Smith,An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations[1776],in The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith,ed.R.H.Campbell and A.S.Skinner,6 vols.(Oxford:Oxford University Press,1976-83),2:572,583-85.
2William Burke,An Account of the European Settlements in America,2 vols.(London:R.and J.Dodsley,1757),2:288.
3Jorg Frisch,“Law as a Means and as an End:Remarks on the Function of European and Non-European Law in the Process of European Expansion,”in W.J.Mommsen and J.A.De Moor,eds.,European Expansion and Law:The Encounter of European and Indigenous Law in 19th and 20th--Century Asia and Africa(Oxford:Oxford University Press,1992),21.
4See Richard Helgerson,Forms of Nationhood:The Elizabethan Writing of England(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,1992).
5Linda Colley,The Britons:Forging the Nation,1707-1787(New Haven:Yale University Press,1992).
6Benedict Anderson,Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism(London:Verso,1983).
7J.G.A.Pocock,The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law:English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century(Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1957).
8Sir John Fortescue,De Laudibus Legum Angliae(Cambridge,1942),25,27,31,33,79,81.
