Reordering the world : essays on liberalism and empire / Duncan Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Duncan, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Great Britain--History.

Liberalism.

History.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

British colonies.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 441 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Contents:

1 Introduction: Reordering the World 1

Political Thought and Empire 3

Structure of the Book 8

Part I Frames

2 The Dream Machine: On Liberalism and Empire 19

Languages of Empire 20

Intertextual Empire: Writing Liberal Imperialism 26

On Settler Colonialism 32

The Tyranny of the Canon 48

3 What Is Liberalism? 62

Constructing Liberalism: Scholarly Purposes and Interpretive Protocols 65

A Summative Conception 69

Liberalism before Locke 73

Wars of Position: Consolidating Liberalism 81

Conclusion: Conscripts of Liberalism 90

4 Ideologies of Empire 91

Imperial Imaginaries 94

Ideologies of Justification 101

Ideologies of Governance 106

Ideologies of Resistance 110

Conclusions 115

Part II Themes

5 Escape Velocity: Ancient History and the Empire of Time 119

The Time of Empire: Narratives of Decline and Fall 121

Harnessing the Time Spirit: On Imperial Progress 132

The Transfiguration of Empire 141

6 The Idea of a Patriot Queen? The Monarchy, the Constitution, and the Iconographic Order of Greater Britain, 1860-1900 148

Constitutional Patriotism and the Monarchy 152

Civic Republicanism and the Colonial Order 160

Conclusions 165

7 Imagined Spaces: Nation, State, and Territory in the British Colonial Empire, 1860-1914 166

Salvaging Empire 168

Remaking the People 173

Translocalism: Expanding the Public 178

Conclusions 181

8 The Project for a New Anglo Century: Race, Space, and Global Order 182

Empire, Nation, State: On Greater Britain 183

The Reunion of the Race: On Anglo-America 189

Afterlives of Empire: Anglo-America and Global Governance 196

Millennia! Dreams, or, Back to the Future 204

Part III Thinkers

9 John Stuart Mill on Colonies 211

On Systematic Colonization: From Domestic to Global 214

Colonial Autonomy, Character, and Civilization 224

Melancholic Colonialism and the Pathos of Distance 229

Conclusions 236

10 International Society in Victorian Political Thought: T. H. Green, Herbert Spencer, and Henry Sidgwick With Casper Sylvest 237

Progress, Justice, and Order: On Liberal Internationalism 239

International Society: Green, Spencer, Sidgwick 243

Civilization, Empire, and the Limits of International Morality 258

Conclusions 264

11 John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of Empire 265

Enthusiasm for Humanity 268

On Nationalist Cosmopolitanism 276

Expanding England: Democracy, Federalism, and the World-State 281

Empire as Polychronicon: India and Ireland 290

12 Republican Imperialism: J. A. Froude and the Virtue of Empire 297

John Stuart Mill and Liberal Civilizing Imperialism 299

Republican Themes in Victorian Political Thought 302

J. A. Froude and the Pathologies of the Moderns 307

Dreaming of Rome: The Uses of History and the Future of "Oceana" 311

Conclusions 319

13 Alter Orbis: E. A. Freeman on Empire and Racial Destiny 321

Palimpsest: A World of Worlds 323

The "Dark Abyss": Freeman on Imperial Federation 327

On Racial Solidarity 334

14 Democracy and Empire: J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, and the Crisis of Liberalism 341

Confronting Modernity 342

Hobhouse and the Ironies of Liberal History 345

Hobson and the Crisis of Liberalism 354

Conclusions 361

15 Coda: (De)Colonizing Liberalism 363.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691138787

0691138788

OCLC:

941713017