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Mehta, Uday Singh

Liberalism and Empire : a study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought /Uday Singh Mehta - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 - xii, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction --
Strategies: liberal conventions and imperial exclusions --
Progress, civilization, and consent --
Liberalism, empire, and territory --
Edmund Burke on the perils of the empire --
Experience and unfamiliarity.

We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward

ISBN: 9780226518824

Publisher. No.: International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Studies
Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Liberalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
British colonies.

Dewey Class. No.: 320.5130941 MEH