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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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