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Lineages of Empire
The Historical Roots of British Imperial Thought
Edited by Duncan Kelly
262 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-726439-3
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Hardback
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30 April 2009
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- Combines political theory and intellectual history
Recently there has been an explosion of academic and popular interest in the history of how Britons have thought about their Empire. This volume focuses on the ways in which the intellectual history and political thought of modern Britain have been saturated with imperial concerns.
Chapters address thematic questions about size and scale, race, colonial emigration, and the ideological uses of the classical tradition, questions that are crucial for understanding the historical roots of British imperial thought. There are also studies of figures central to understanding the
character of intellectual debates about the British Empire from the 18th to the 20th centuries: Edmund Burke, James Steuart, Adam Smith, and Harold Laski.
This volume also shows how an awareness of these histories of the imperial past can provide numerous lessons for understanding the strengths and weaknesses of much contemporary political thinking about empire and imperialism. In fact, whilst there are many studies of the British Empire, as well as innumerable volumes on the imperial cast of much modern history, the thematic and chronological coherence of this volume makes it a unique statement of the latest thinking about these questions from internationally acclaimed political theorists and intellectual
historians.Readership: Scholars and students of political thought and history, particularly the history of empire.
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Edited by Duncan Kelly, Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge Contributors:
Duncan Kelly, University of Cambridge; Iain Hampsher-Monk, University of Exeter; Doug Lorimer, Wilfrid Laurier University; Uday Mehta, Amherst College; Jeannne Morefield, Whitman College; Karen O'Brien, University of Warwick; Robert Travers, Cornell University; James Tully, University of Victoria; Phiroze Vasunia, University of Reading; Richard Whatmore, University of Sussex
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"Lineages of Empire makes a compelling contribution, not only to British history, but also to our understanding of the complicated intellectual inheritances of European and U.S. Imperialism more generally." - Sarah Irving, Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture. "[a] stimulating and worthwhile volume" - Andrew Sartori, English Historical Review
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Duncan Kelly: Introduction
Part One: Genealogies of Empire
James Tully: Lineages of Informal Imperialism
Uday Mehta: The Social Question and the Problem of History after Empire
Part Two: Historical Debates
Richard Whatmore: 'Neither Masters nor Slaves': Small States and Empires in the Long Eighteenth Century
Phiroze Vasunia: Virgil and the British Empire, 1760-1880
Iain Hampsher-Monk: Edmund Burke and Empire
Robert Travers: British India as a Problem in Political Economy: Comparing James Steuart and Adam Smith
Karen O'Brien: Colonial Emigration, Public Policy and Tory Romanticism, 1783-1830
Doug Lorimer: From Natural Science to Social Science: Race and the Language of Race-Relations in Late Victorian and Edwardian Discourse
Jeannne Morefield: Harold Laski on the Habits of Imperialism
Conclusion
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