Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal ThoughtUniversity of Chicago Press, 2018 M06 29 - 245 páginas We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world. Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke—a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion—that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated. |
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... Britain - History - 19th century . 2. Great Britain- Colonies - History - 19th century . I. Title . JC574.2.G7M44 1999 320.5'13'0941 - dc21 98-40812 CIP An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as " Strategies of Exclusion , " Politics ...
... Britain - History - 19th century . 2. Great Britain- Colonies - History - 19th century . I. Title . JC574.2.G7M44 1999 320.5'13'0941 - dc21 98-40812 CIP An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as " Strategies of Exclusion , " Politics ...
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... Britain ( New York : 1869 ) . 4. Quoted in Harold Nicolson , Curzon : The Last Phase 1919–1925 ( New York : Harcourt , Brace and Company , 1939 ) , 13 . ish political theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were INTRODUCTION 5.
... Britain ( New York : 1869 ) . 4. Quoted in Harold Nicolson , Curzon : The Last Phase 1919–1925 ( New York : Harcourt , Brace and Company , 1939 ) , 13 . ish political theorists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were INTRODUCTION 5.
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... Britain , in its self- image , was a democracy , yet it held a vast empire that was , at least osten- sibly , undemocratic in its acquisition and governance ; following Locke , there was a broad consensus that linked the exercise of ...
... Britain , in its self- image , was a democracy , yet it held a vast empire that was , at least osten- sibly , undemocratic in its acquisition and governance ; following Locke , there was a broad consensus that linked the exercise of ...
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... Britain by thousands of miles and numerous other distances - as James Mill put it , the government was conducted " by correspondence " from London ; where the historical connection between these two peoples was limited , or rather ...
... Britain by thousands of miles and numerous other distances - as James Mill put it , the government was conducted " by correspondence " from London ; where the historical connection between these two peoples was limited , or rather ...
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... Britain and India , and in the per- ceptions of each other . Regarding the perception of liberalism in India or by Indians of that time this work is largely silent.12 Moreover that 11. Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ...
... Britain and India , and in the per- ceptions of each other . Regarding the perception of liberalism in India or by Indians of that time this work is largely silent.12 Moreover that 11. Louis Hartz , The Liberal Tradition in America ...
Contenido
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Strategies Liberal Conventions and Imperial Exclusions | 46 |
Progress Civilization and Consent | 77 |
Liberalism Empire and Territory | 115 |
Edmund Burke on the Perils of the Empire | 153 |
Experience and Unfamiliarity | 190 |
Index | 219 |
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Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought Uday Singh Mehta Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
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