Liberalism and Empire (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals manifested a narrow conception of human experience and ways of being in the world.
Ironically, it is in the conservative Edmund Burke--a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion--that Mehta finds an alternative and more capacious liberal vision. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, "Liberalism and Empire" reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise our conception of the grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	June 1999
Authors:	Uday Singh Mehta
Dimensions:	226 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	237
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-51882-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-51882-5
Barcode:	9780226518824

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