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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... IMPERIAL EXCLUSIONS 46 Three PROGRESS , CIVILIZATION , AND CONSENT 77 Four LIBERALISM , EMPIRE , AND TERRITORY 115 Five EDMUND BURKE ON THE PERILS OF THE EMPIRE 153 Conclusion EXPERIENCE AND UNFAMILIARITY 190 Index 219 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...
... IMPERIAL EXCLUSIONS 46 Three PROGRESS , CIVILIZATION , AND CONSENT 77 Four LIBERALISM , EMPIRE , AND TERRITORY 115 Five EDMUND BURKE ON THE PERILS OF THE EMPIRE 153 Conclusion EXPERIENCE AND UNFAMILIARITY 190 Index 219 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...
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... imperial and colo- nial issues in this period , it is Burke who is most sensitive to the com- plexities of imperial links and to the strengths and vulnerabilities upon which they draw at both ends . ' Similarly , no thinker or statesman ...
... imperial and colo- nial issues in this period , it is Burke who is most sensitive to the com- plexities of imperial links and to the strengths and vulnerabilities upon which they draw at both ends . ' Similarly , no thinker or statesman ...
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... imperial " people was an ascending one all the way into the twentieth century . From 1 January 1600 , when fifty - eight merchants incorporated themselves to form the East India Company and received a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth ...
... imperial " people was an ascending one all the way into the twentieth century . From 1 January 1600 , when fifty - eight merchants incorporated themselves to form the East India Company and received a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth ...
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... imperial policy in India and Jamaica - did not just work at the East India Company , he worked there for thirty - five years ( indeed , it was the only full - time job he ever held ) , and that apart from discussing the empire in all ...
... imperial policy in India and Jamaica - did not just work at the East India Company , he worked there for thirty - five years ( indeed , it was the only full - time job he ever held ) , and that apart from discussing the empire in all ...
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... imperial power , as George III and his ministers empha- sized and as later liberals such as both the Mills concurred ( at least with respect to India ) , had no such constraints placed on its exercise ; simi- larly , by the mid ...
... imperial power , as George III and his ministers empha- sized and as later liberals such as both the Mills concurred ( at least with respect to India ) , had no such constraints placed on its exercise ; simi- larly , by the mid ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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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