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Alibis of Empire : Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism /
Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2010]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule
- CHAPTER ONE. The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism
- CHAPTER TWO. Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory
- CHAPTER THREE. Codification in the East and West
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property
- CHAPTER FIVE. Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule
- CODA. Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index