Victorian visions of global order : empire and international relations in nineteenth-century political thought / edited by Duncan Bell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Duncan, 1976-

Series:

Ideas in context ; 86.

Ideas in context ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--Government policy.

History.

Imperialism.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--19th century.

Great Britain.

International relations.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Imperialism--Government policy--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 297 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Victorian Visions of Global Order explores many of the most important and influential ways that political thinkers in Britain imagined and theorised empire and international relations during the nineteenth century. A distinguished group of contributors examines a wide variety of perspectives, spanning law, political economy, social and political theory, historical writing, and debates in public policy, analysing the political thinking of both the famous (Bentham, Mill, Marx, and Hobson) and of those who, whiel influential at the time, are all but forgotten today.

Contents:

Victorian visions of global order : an introduction / Duncan Bell

Free trade and global order : the rise and fall of a Victorian vision / Anthony Howe

The foundations of Victorian international law / Casper Sylvest

Boundaries of Victorian international law / Jennifer Pitts

'A legislating empire' : Victorian political theorists, codes of law, and empire / Sandra den Otter

The crisis of liberal imperialism / Karuna Mantena

'Great' versus 'small' nations : scale and national greatness in Victorian political thought / Georgios Varouxakis

The Victorian idea of a global state / Duncan Bell

Radicalism and the extra-European world : the case of Karl Marx / Gareth Stedman Jones

Radicalism, Gladstone, and the liberal critique of Disraelian 'imperialism' / Peter Cain

The 'left' and the critique of empire c. 1865-1900 : three roots of humanitarian foreign policy / Gregory Claeys

Consequentialist cosmopolitanism / David Weinstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521882927

0521882923

OCLC:

164802966

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