A turn to empire : the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France / Jennifer Pitts.
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TextPublication details: Princeton; Oxford : Princeton Unversity Press, 2006.Description: xii, 382 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780691127910
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index.
Critics of empire. Adam Smith on societal development and colonial r ule ; Edmund Burke's peculiar universalism -- Utilitarians and the turn to empire in Britain. Jeremy Bentham : legislator of the world? ; Jame s and John Stuart Mill : the development of imperial liberalism in Brit ain -- Liberals and the turn to empire in France. The liberal volte-fac e in France ; Tocqueville and the Algeria question.
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