A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and FrancePrinceton University Press, 2009 M04 11 - 400 páginas 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 unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers, including John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, vigorously supported the conquest of non-European peoples. Pitts explains that this reflected a rise in civilizational self-confidence, as theories of human progress became more triumphalist, less nuanced, and less tolerant of cultural difference. At the same time, imperial expansion abroad came to be seen as a political project that might assist the emergence of stable liberal democracies within Europe. |
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... Exclusions of Empire Systematic Oppression in India Moral Imagination: Empire and Social Criticism Geographical Morality and Burke's Universalism The Politics of Exclusion in Ireland Burke as a Theorist of Nationality PART 2 ...
... Exclusion in America 196 Chapter 7 Tocqueville and the Algeria Question 204 Tocqueville as an Architect of French Algeria 204 From Assimilation to Domination: Tocqueville's Early Colonial Vision 207 The British Empire as Rival and Model ...
... exclusions. John Stuart Mill was attuned to a degree remarkable for a man of his day to the ways in which European society and laws infantilized women, treating them as wards incapable of bearing adult responsibility. At the same time ...
... exclusion that characterized Britain's relations with its colonial subjects. Burke perceived that British actions in the world were governed by a restricted notion of moral and political community that led to contempt for imperial ...
... exclusion of populations the British settlers considered inferior, and he regularly drew connections between his own efforts on behalf of Irish Catholics and Indians, two excluded and, as he said, “oppressed” peoples. For Mill, Ireland ...
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UTILITARIANS AND THE TURN TO EMPIRE IN BRITAIN | 101 |
LIBERALS AND THE TURN TO EMPIRE IN FRANCE | 163 |
Notes | 259 |
Bibliography | 343 |
Index | 363 |
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