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