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Liberalism and Empire : A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
Liberalism and Empire A Study in NineteenthCentury British Liberal Thought
Author: Uday Singh Mehta
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 c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226518817
ISBN-10: 0226518817
Publication Date: 6/1/1999
Pages: 245
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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