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Empire of Neglect - The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (Paperback) Loot Price: R801
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Empire of Neglect - The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (Paperback): Christopher Taylor

Empire of Neglect - The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism (Paperback)

Christopher Taylor

Series: Radical Americas

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Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal empire. British West Indians across the divides of race and class understood that, far from signaling an invitation to nationalist independence, this liberal economic discourse inaugurated a policy of imperial "neglect"-a way of ignoring the ties that obligated Britain to sustain the worlds of the empire's distant fellow subjects. In Empire of Neglect Christopher Taylor examines this neglect's cultural and literary ramifications, tracing how nineteenth-century British West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas as a response to the liberalization of the British Empire. Analyzing a wide array of sources, from plantation correspondence, political economy treatises, and novels to newspapers, socialist programs, and memoirs, Taylor shows how the Americas came to serve as a real and figurative site at which abandoned West Indians sought to imagine and invent postliberal forms of political subjecthood.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Radical Americas
Release date: April 2018
First published: 2018
Authors: Christopher Taylor
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7115-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
Books > History > American history > General
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LSN: 0-8223-7115-4
Barcode: 9780822371151

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