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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... J. S. Mill in Considerations on Representative Government uses the term in this sense . But even then it was often used as synonymous with the term imperialism , in part because it was often a conse- quence of the latter . See Sir ...
... J. S. Mill in Considerations on Representative Government uses the term in this sense . But even then it was often used as synonymous with the term imperialism , in part because it was often a conse- quence of the latter . See Sir ...
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... Mill , Lord Macaulay , Sir Henry Maine , and John Stuart Mill ; and when they were of a more occasional nature , as with Adam Smith , David Ricardo , and David Hume , they are nevertheless marked by a seriousness of purpose . This fact ...
... Mill , Lord Macaulay , Sir Henry Maine , and John Stuart Mill ; and when they were of a more occasional nature , as with Adam Smith , David Ricardo , and David Hume , they are nevertheless marked by a seriousness of purpose . This fact ...
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... Mill's career was the monumental six - volume History of British India ; that John Stuart Mill - the author of over a dozen parliamentary and other reports on matters of imperial policy in India and Jamaica - did not just work at the ...
... Mill's career was the monumental six - volume History of British India ; that John Stuart Mill - the author of over a dozen parliamentary and other reports on matters of imperial policy in India and Jamaica - did not just work at the ...
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... John Stuart Mill , who most forcefully articulated this argument , it ap- plied only to the Anglo - Saxon parts of the empire . At a more general level , from the seventeenth century onward , the British , the Dutch , and the French ...
... John Stuart Mill , who most forcefully articulated this argument , it ap- plied only to the Anglo - Saxon parts of the empire . At a more general level , from the seventeenth century onward , the British , the Dutch , and the French ...
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... Mill : " I am going to British India , but I shall not be Governor General ... John Stuart Mill who is the defendant in James Fitzjames Stephen's ... John Stuart Mill and Tocqueville , in their letters , discussing the need for European ...
... Mill : " I am going to British India , but I shall not be Governor General ... John Stuart Mill who is the defendant in James Fitzjames Stephen's ... John Stuart Mill and Tocqueville , in their letters , discussing the need for European ...
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 |
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought Uday Singh Mehta Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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