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How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the
United States Between the late nineteenth century and the First
World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals
advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They
dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars,
journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers
invested the "Anglo-Saxons" with extraordinary power. The most
ambitious hailed them as a people destined to bring peace and
justice to the earth. More modest visions still imagined them as
likely to shape the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores
this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial
domination, political utopianism, and world order. Focusing on a
quartet of extraordinary figures-Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead,
Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. Wells-Duncan Bell shows how unionists on
both sides of the Atlantic reimagined citizenship, empire,
patriotism, race, war, and peace in their quest to secure global
supremacy. Yet even as they dreamt of an Anglo-dominated world, the
unionists disagreed over the meaning of race, the legitimacy of
imperialism, the nature of political belonging, and the ultimate
form and purpose of unification. The racial dreamworld was an
object of competing claims and fantasies. Exploring speculative
fiction as well as more conventional forms of political writing,
Bell reads unionist arguments as expressions of the utopianism
circulating through fin-de-siecle Anglo-American culture, and
juxtaposes them with pan-Africanist critiques of racial domination
and late twentieth-century fictional narratives of Anglo-American
empire. Tracing how intellectual elites promoted an ambitious
project of political and racial unification between Britain and the
United States, Dreamworlds of Race analyzes ideas of empire and
world order that reverberate to this day.
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.
What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can
it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays
assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that
architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a
political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim
to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking
about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built
environment. The collection advances four lines of inquiry, probing
the connection between architecture and political regimes;
examining how architecture can be constitutive of the ethical and
political realm; uncovering how architecture is enmeshed in logics
of governmentality and in the political economy of the city; and
asking to what extent we can think of architecture-tributary as it
is to the flows of capital-as a partially autonomous social force.
Taken together, the essays demonstrate the salience of a range of
political theoretical approaches for the analysis of architecture,
and show that architecture deserves a place as an object of study
in political theory, alongside institutions, laws, norms,
practices, imaginaries, and discourses.
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the
United States Between the late nineteenth century and the First
World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals
advocated the unification of Britain and the United States. They
dreamt of the final consolidation of the Angloworld. Scholars,
journalists, politicians, businessmen, and science fiction writers
invested the "Anglo-Saxons" with extraordinary power. The most
ambitious hailed them as a people destined to bring peace and
justice to the earth. More modest visions still imagined them as
likely to shape the twentieth century. Dreamworlds of Race explores
this remarkable moment in the intellectual history of racial
domination, political utopianism, and world order. Focusing on a
quartet of extraordinary figures-Andrew Carnegie, W. T. Stead,
Cecil J. Rhodes, and H. G. Wells-Duncan Bell shows how unionists on
both sides of the Atlantic reimagined citizenship, empire,
patriotism, race, war, and peace in their quest to secure global
supremacy. Yet even as they dreamt of an Anglo-dominated world, the
unionists disagreed over the meaning of race, the legitimacy of
imperialism, the nature of political belonging, and the ultimate
form and purpose of unification. The racial dreamworld was an
object of competing claims and fantasies. Exploring speculative
fiction as well as more conventional forms of political writing,
Bell reads unionist arguments as expressions of the utopianism
circulating through fin-de-siecle Anglo-American culture, and
juxtaposes them with pan-Africanist critiques of racial domination
and late twentieth-century fictional narratives of Anglo-American
empire. Tracing how intellectual elites promoted an ambitious
project of political and racial unification between Britain and the
United States, Dreamworlds of Race analyzes ideas of empire and
world order that reverberate to this day.
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.
Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward
abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave
contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it
actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or
about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a
significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid
such pitfalls by remaining attentive to the distinctiveness of
politics and the ways its realities ought to shape how we think and
act in the political realm. Politics Recovered brings together
prominent scholars to develop what it might mean to theorize
politics "realistically." Intervening in philosophical debates such
as the relationship between politics and morality and the role that
facts and emotions should play in the theorization of political
values, the volume addresses how a realist approach aids our
understanding of pressing issues such as global justice,
inequality, poverty, political corruption, the value of democracy,
governmental secrecy, and demands for transparency. Contributors
open up fruitful dialogues with a variety of other realist
approaches, such as feminist theory, democratic theory, and
international relations. By exploring the nature and prospects of
realist thought, Politics Recovered shows how political theory can
affirm reality in order to provide meaningful and compelling
answers to the fundamental questions of political life.
What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can
it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays
assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that
architecture is not merely a backdrop to political life but a
political force in its own right. Each in their own way, they aim
to give countenance to that claim, and to show how our thinking
about politics can be enriched by reflecting on the built
environment. The collection advances four lines of inquiry, probing
the connection between architecture and political regimes;
examining how architecture can be constitutive of the ethical and
political realm; uncovering how architecture is enmeshed in logics
of governmentality and in the political economy of the city; and
asking to what extent we can think of architecture-tributary as it
is to the flows of capital-as a partially autonomous social force.
Taken together, the essays demonstrate the salience of a range of
political theoretical approaches for the analysis of architecture,
and show that architecture deserves a place as an object of study
in political theory, alongside institutions, laws, norms,
practices, imaginaries, and discourses.
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century,
as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global
economic and strategic competition reshaped the political
imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how
best to organize the empire. Many found an answer to the anxieties
of the age in the idea of Greater Britain, a union of the United
Kingdom and its settler colonies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
and southern Africa. In "The Idea of Greater Britain," Duncan Bell
analyzes this fertile yet neglected debate, examining how a wide
range of thinkers conceived of this vast "Anglo-Saxon" political
community. Their proposals ranged from the fantastically
ambitious--creating a globe-spanning nation-state--to the practical
and mundane--reinforcing existing ties between the colonies and
Britain. But all of these ideas were motivated by the disquiet
generated by democracy, by challenges to British global supremacy,
and by new possibilities for global cooperation and communication
that anticipated today's globalization debates. Exploring attitudes
toward the state, race, space, nationality, and empire, as well as
highlighting the vital theoretical functions played by visions of
Greece, Rome, and the United States, Bell illuminates important
aspects of late-Victorian political thought and intellectual
life.
The status of boundaries and borders, questions of global poverty
and inequality, criteria for the legitimate uses of force, the
value of international law, human rights, nationality, sovereignty,
migration, territory, and citizenship: debates over these critical
issues are central to contemporary understandings of world
politics. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of
contributors, including historians, political theorists, lawyers,
and international relations scholars, this is the first volume of
its kind to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative
debates over global justice.
This book addresses the problem of text classification. The main
motivation is the accurate classification of medical text reports.
Such documents contain important information about patients,
disease progression and management, but are difficult to analyse
and query with conventional techniques due to their unstructured
nature. We show how these medical reports can be classified
automatically with a high degree of accuracy. A novel method is
developed for accurate classification of medical reports. The
method uses clustering as a pre-processing step to improve the
final classification accuracy. The work requires the investigation
of different methods for document representation, clustering and
classification. In addition, it requires the use of Natural
Language Processing tools. A new approach that requires minimal
labelling effort, is found to be an effective classification tool
for this task. Results show that the approach produces good
classification performance on a real-world medical problem.
Importantly, the addition of clustering features further improves
the accuracy of the final classifier. Results are cross-checked
using different medical classification tasks
The status of boundaries and borders, questions of global poverty
and inequality, criteria for the legitimate uses of force, the
value of international law, human rights, nationality, sovereignty,
migration, territory, and citizenship: debates over these critical
issues are central to contemporary understandings of world
politics. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of
contributors, including historians, political theorists, lawyers,
and international relations scholars, this is the first volume of
its kind to explore the racial and imperial dimensions of normative
debates over global justice.
Historians have long understood that the notion of "the cold war"
is richly metaphorical, if not paradoxical. The conflict between
the United States and the Soviet Union was a war that fell
ambiguously short of war, an armed truce that produced considerable
bloodshed. Yet scholars in the rapidly expanding field of Cold War
studies have seldom paused to consider the conceptual and
chronological foundations of the idea of the Cold War itself. This
stands in contrast to the study of other historical epochs that are
governed by grand but ambivalent rubrics: the Renaissance, the
Scientific Revolution, or the Industrial Revolution. In Uncertain
Empire, a group of leading scholars takes up the challenge of
making sense of the idea of the Cold War and its application to the
writing of American history. They interrogate the concept from a
wide range of disciplinary vantage points; the scope of these
different positions illustrates the diversity of methods and
approaches in contemporary Cold War studies. Among the disciplines
on which the book draws are diplomatic history, the history of
science, literary criticism, cultural history, and the history of
religion. Animating the volume as a whole is a question about the
extent to which the Cold War was an American invention. Essays look
at the Cold War as in need of a rigorous re-centering, after a
decade in which historians have introduced expansive global and
transnational perspectives on the conflict; as a uniquely American
ideological project designed to legitimize the pursuit of an
ambitious geopolitical agenda; as a geopolitical and transnational
phenomenon; and other approaches. Uncertain Empire brings these
debates into focus, and offers students of the Cold War a new
framework for considering recent developments in the scholarship.
This wide-ranging and original 2007 study provides an insight into
the climate of political thought during the lifespan of what was,
at this time, the most powerful empire in history. A distinguished
group of contributors explores the way in which thinkers in Britain
theorised influential views about empire and international
relations, exploring topics such as the evolution of international
law; the ways in which the world was notionally divided into the
'civilised' and the 'barbarian'; the role of India in shaping
visions of civil society; grandiose ideas about a global imperial
state; the development of an array of radical critiques of empire;
the varieties of liberal imperialism; and the rise and fall of free
trade. Together, the chapters form an analysis of political thought
in this context; both of the famous (Bentham, Mill, Marx, and
Hobson) and of those who, whilst influential at the time, are all
but forgotten today.
This wide-ranging and original study provides an insight into the
climate of political thought during the lifespan of what was, at
this time, the most powerful empire in history. A distinguished
group of contributors explores the way in which thinkers in Britain
theorised influential views about empire and international
relations, exploring topics such as the evolution of international
law; the ways in which the world was notionally divided into the
???civilised??? and the ???barbarian???; the role of India in
shaping visions of civil society; grandiose ideas about a global
imperial state; the development of an array of radical critiques of
empire; the varieties of liberal imperialism; and the rise and fall
of free trade. Together, the chapters form an analysis of political
thought in this context; both of the famous (Bentham, Mill, Marx,
and Hobson) and of those who, whilst influential at the time, are
all but forgotten today.
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