A Turn to Empire : : The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France / / Jennifer Pitts.
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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Pitts, Jennifer, author. A Turn to Empire : The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France / Jennifer Pitts. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2006 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- One. Introduction -- Part One. Cristics Of Empire -- Two. Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule -- Three. Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism -- Part 2: Utilitarians and the Turn to Empire in Britain -- Four. Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World? -- Five. James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain -- Part 3: Liberals and the Turn to Empire in France -- Six. The Liberal Volte-Face in France -- Seven. Tocqueville and the Algeria Question -- Eight. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Pitts shows that liberal thinkers usually celebrated for respecting not only human equality and liberty but also pluralism supported an inegalitarian and decidedly nonhumanitarian international politics. Yet such moments represent not a necessary feature of liberal thought but a striking departure from views shared by precisely those late-eighteenth-century thinkers whom Mill and Tocqueville saw as their forebears. Fluently written, A Turn to Empire offers a novel assessment of modern political thought and international justice, and an illuminating perspective on continuing debates over empire, intervention, and liberal political commitments. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Imperialism History 18th century. Imperialism History 19th century. Liberalism History 18th century. Liberalism History 19th century. Political science France History. Political science Great Britain History. (DE-601)106246933 (DE-588)4035582-2 Liberalismus gnd (DE-601)106287427 (DE-588)4026651-5 Imperialismus gnd PHILOSOPHY / Political. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691127910 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826636 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826636.jpg |
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Pitts, Jennifer, A Turn to Empire : The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- One. Introduction -- Part One. Cristics Of Empire -- Two. Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule -- Three. Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism -- Part 2: Utilitarians and the Turn to Empire in Britain -- Four. Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World? -- Five. James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain -- Part 3: Liberals and the Turn to Empire in France -- Six. The Liberal Volte-Face in France -- Seven. Tocqueville and the Algeria Question -- Eight. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- One. Introduction -- Part One. Cristics Of Empire -- Two. Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule -- Three. Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism -- Part 2: Utilitarians and the Turn to Empire in Britain -- Four. Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World? -- Five. James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain -- Part 3: Liberals and the Turn to Empire in France -- Six. The Liberal Volte-Face in France -- Seven. Tocqueville and the Algeria Question -- Eight. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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