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Acknowledgments | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Introduction | |
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Liberalism, Pluralism, and Empire | |
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Scope and Summary | |
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Historical Contexts | |
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Critics Of Empire | |
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Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule | |
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The Causes and Complexity of Development in Smith's Thought | |
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Progress, Rationality, and the Early Social Stages | |
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Moral Progress and Commercial Society | |
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Moral Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Judgments | |
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Smith's Critique of Colonies | |
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Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism | |
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The Exclusions of Empire | |
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Systematic Oppression in India | |
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Moral Imagination: Empire and Social Criticism | |
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Geographical Morality and Burke's Universalism | |
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The Politics of Exclusion in Ireland | |
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Burke as a Theorist of Nationality | |
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Utilitarians And The Turn To Empire In Britain | |
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Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World? | |
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Utilitarians and the British Empire | |
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Bentham's Critique of Colonial Rule | |
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A Rereading of Bentham's Work on India | |
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James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain | |
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James Mill: An Uneasy Alliance of Utilitarianism and Conjectural History | |
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J.S. Mill: Character and the Revision of the Benthamite Tradition | |
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Nationality and Progressive Despotism | |
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Civilizing Backward Societies: India and Ireland | |
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Colonial Reform and the Governor Eyre Episode | |
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Conclusion | |
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Liberals And The Turn To Empire In France | |
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The Liberal Volte-Face in France | |
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Shifting Political Contexts: Britain, France, and Imperial Projects | |
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Condorcet: Progress and the Roots of the Mission Civilisatrice 168 Constant and the Distrust of Empire | |
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Desjobert and the Marginalization of Anti-imperialism | |
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Tocqueville's Sociology of Democracy and the Question of European Expansion | |
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Expansion and Exclusion in America | |
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Tocqueville and the Algeria Question | |
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Tocqueville as an Architect of French Algeria | |
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From Assimilation to Domination: Tocqueville's Early Colonial Vision | |
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The British Empire as Rival and Model | |
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Slavery in the French Empire | |
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Universal Rights, Nation Building, and Progress | |
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Conclusion | |
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Eighteenth-Century Criticism of Empire | |
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Democracy and Liberal Anxieties in the Nineteenth Century | |
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Late Liberal Misgivings about Imperial Injustice | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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