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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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| Index | |