Pitts, Jennifer, 1970-

A turn to empire : the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France / Jennifer Pitts. - Princeton; Oxford : Princeton Unversity Press, 2006. - xii, 382 p. ; 24 cm.

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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Imperialism -- History -- 18th century.
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.


Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
France -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.

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