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A Turn to Empire : The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
A Turn to Empire The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
Author: Jennifer Pitts
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and econom...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691115580
ISBN-10: 0691115583
Publication Date: 4/11/2005
Pages: 392
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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