A leading scholar of British political thought explores the
relationship between liberalism and empire Reordering the World is
a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in
liberal visions of empire. Focusing mainly on nineteenth-century
Britain-at the time the largest empire in history and a key
incubator of liberal political thought-Duncan Bell sheds new light
on some of the most important themes in modern imperial ideology.
The book ranges widely across Victorian intellectual life and
beyond. The opening essays explore the nature of liberalism,
varieties of imperial ideology, the uses and abuses of ancient
history, the imaginative functions of the monarchy, and fantasies
of Anglo-Saxon global domination. They are followed by illuminating
studies of prominent thinkers, including J. A. Hobson, L. T.
Hobhouse, John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Herbert Spencer, and J.
R. Seeley. While insisting that liberal attitudes to empire were
multiple and varied, Bell emphasizes the liberal fascination with
settler colonialism. It was in the settler empire that many liberal
imperialists found the place of their political dreams. Reordering
the World is a significant contribution to the history of modern
political thought and political theory.
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