Liberalism and Empire: A Study in NineteenthCentury British Liberal Thought,Used
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in NineteenthCentury British Liberal Thought,Used
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in NineteenthCentury British Liberal Thought,Used

Liberalism and Empire: A Study in NineteenthCentury British Liberal Thought,Used

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We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and selfdetermination, 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 cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world.Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burkea severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansionthat Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, Liberalism and Empire reaches beyond postcolonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.

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