Covenants without Swords : : Idealist Liberalism and the Spirit of Empire / / Jeanne Morefield.
Covenants without Swords examines an enduring tension within liberal theory: that between many liberals' professed commitment to universal equality on the one hand, and their historic support for the politics of hierarchy and empire on the other. It does so by examining the work of two extremel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Oxford Liberalism and the Return of Patriarchy
- Chapter 2. An "Oddly Transposed" Liberalism
- Chapter 3. Mind, Spirit, and Liberalism in the World
- Chapter 4. Nationhood, World Order, and the One Great City of Men and Gods
- Chapter 5. Nationhood, World Order, and the One Great City of Men and Gods
- Chapter 6. Liberal Community and the Lure of Empire
- Bibliography
- Index