A turn to empire the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton Unversity Press
cop. 2006
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| Edición: | 2nd print |
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Critics of empire. Adam Smith on societal development and colonial rule ; Edmund Burke's peculiar universalism
- Utilitarians and the turn to empire in Britain. Jeremy Bentham : legislator of the world? ; James and John Stuart Mill : the development of imperial liberalism in Britain
- Liberals and the turn to empire in France. The liberal volte-face in France ; Tocqueville and the Algeria question.
