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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... thinkers when faced with the un- familiarity to which their association with the British Empire exposed them . The empire was a complex phenomenon informed by the multiple purposes of power , commerce , cultural and religious influence ...
... thinkers when faced with the un- familiarity to which their association with the British Empire exposed them . The empire was a complex phenomenon informed by the multiple purposes of power , commerce , cultural and religious influence ...
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... thinkers such as Bentham , both the Mills , and Macaulay , who , notwithstanding - indeed , on account of - their reforming schemes , endorse the empire as a legitimate form of political and commercial governance ; who justify and ...
... thinkers such as Bentham , both the Mills , and Macaulay , who , notwithstanding - indeed , on account of - their reforming schemes , endorse the empire as a legitimate form of political and commercial governance ; who justify and ...
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... thinker , not even John Stuart Mill in the mid - nineteenth century , reflected with such depth and moral seriousness on ... thinkers from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century that deal with the British Empire . We rightly ...
... thinker , not even John Stuart Mill in the mid - nineteenth century , reflected with such depth and moral seriousness on ... thinkers from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century that deal with the British Empire . We rightly ...
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... thinker of note wrote on the empire and most of them wrote on the British Empire in India . More often than not , these writings were copi- ous , as in the cases of Edmund Burke , Jeremy Bentham , James Mill , Lord Macaulay , Sir Henry ...
... thinker of note wrote on the empire and most of them wrote on the British Empire in India . More often than not , these writings were copi- ous , as in the cases of Edmund Burke , Jeremy Bentham , James Mill , Lord Macaulay , Sir Henry ...
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... thinkers , especially those of a cosmopolitan cast of mind , should have found their thoughts almost ineluctably engaging with this vast scene of British ac- tion . And yet , this fact belongs to that peculiar set of facts that are ...
... thinkers , especially those of a cosmopolitan cast of mind , should have found their thoughts almost ineluctably engaging with this vast scene of British ac- tion . And yet , this fact belongs to that peculiar set of facts that are ...
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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