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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Duncan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Liberalism--Great Britain--History.

Liberalism.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 most important themes in modern imperial ideology.The book ranges widely across Victorian intellectual life and beyond. The opening essays explore the nature of liberalism, varieties of imperial ideology, the uses and abuses of ancient history, the imaginative functions of the monarchy, and fantasies of Anglo-Saxon global domination. They are followed by illuminating studies of prominent thinkers, including J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, and J. R. Seeley. While insisting that liberal attitudes to empire were multiple and varied, Bell emphasizes the liberal fascination with settler colonialism. It was in the settler empire that many liberal imperialists found the place of their political dreams.Reordering the World is a significant contribution to the history of modern political thought and political theory.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400881024

1400881021

OCLC:

1017608500