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Utilitarianism and empire /

The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schultz, Bart, Varouxakis, Georgios, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Jeremy Bentham on slavery and the slave trade / Frederick Rosen
  • Jeremy Bentham: legislator of the world? / Jennifer Pitts
  • James Mill's The history of British India: the question of utilitarianism and empire / Javed Majeed
  • Mill on happiness: the enduring value of a complex critique / Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Liberalism's limits: Carlyle and Mill on "the negro question" / David Theo Goldberg
  • Empire, race, euro-centrism: John Stuart Mill and his critics / Georgios Varouxakis
  • Chairing the Jamaica Committee: J.S. Mill and the limits of colonial authority / J. Joseph Miller
  • The early utilitarians, race, and empire: the state of the argument / H.S. Jones
  • Imagining Darwinism / David Weinstein
  • Sidgwick's racism / Bart Schultz.