Liberalism and Empire A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought

Name: Liberalism and Empire A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
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ISBN: 9780226518824

ISBN-10: 0226518825

ISBN-13: 9780226518824

Edition: 1999

Authors: Uday Singh Mehta

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




Introduction



Strategies: Liberal Conventions and Imperial Exclusions



Progress, Civilization, and Consent



Liberalism, Empire, and Territory



Edmund Burke on the Perils of the Empire


Conclusion


Experience and Unfamiliarity


Index