Reordering the World : : Essays on Liberalism and Empire / / Duncan Bell.

Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century Britain-at the time the largest empire in history and a key incubator of liberal political thought-Duncan Bell sheds new light on some of the m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction. Reordering the world
  • Part I: Frames
  • 2. The Dream Machine
  • 3. What Is Liberalism?
  • 4. Ideologies of Empire
  • Part II: Themes
  • 5. Escape Velocity
  • 6. The Idea of a Patriot Queen?
  • 7. Imagined Spaces
  • 8. The Project for a New Anglo Century
  • Part III: Thinkers
  • 9. John Stuart Mill on Colonies
  • 10. International Society in Victorian Political Thought
  • 11. John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of Empire
  • 12. Republican Imperialism
  • 13. Alter Orbis
  • 14. Democracy and Empire
  • 15. Coda
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX