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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bell, Duncan, 1976- editor.

Series:

Ideas in context ; 86.

Ideas in context ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Imperialism.

International relations--Public opinion--History--19th century.

International relations.

Public opinion--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Public opinion.

Political culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Political culture.

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

Great Britain.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging and original 2007 study provides an insight into the climate of political thought during the lifespan of what was, at this time, the most powerful empire in history. A distinguished group of contributors explores the way in which thinkers in Britain theorised influential views about empire and international relations, exploring topics such as the evolution of international law; the ways in which the world was notionally divided into the 'civilised' and the 'barbarian'; the role of India in shaping visions of civil society; grandiose ideas about a global imperial state; the development of an array of radical critiques of empire; the varieties of liberal imperialism; and the rise and fall of free trade. Together, the chapters form an analysis of political thought in this context; both of the famous (Bentham, Mill, Marx, and Hobson) and of those who, whilst 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2016).

ISBN:

1-107-18562-9

1-281-15627-2

0-511-36937-9

9786611156275

0-511-37041-5

0-511-37092-X

0-511-49043-7

0-511-36991-3

0-511-37139-X

OCLC:

761647205