A turn to empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France
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1. Verfasser: Pitts, Jennifer (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ [u.a.] Princeton Unversity Press 2006
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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 economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers, including John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, vigorously supported the conquest of non-European peoples. Pitt
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ISBN:9781400826636
DOI:10.1515/9781400826636

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