Victorian visions of global order : empire and international relations in nineteenth-century political thought
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Victorian visions of global order : empire and international relations in nineteenth-century political thought
（Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 86）
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Duncan Bell
- 2. Free trade and global order: the rise and fall of a Victorian vision Anthony Howe
- 3. The foundations of Victorian international law Casper Sylvest
- 4. Boundaries of Victorian international law Jennifer Pitts
- 5. 'A legislating empire': Victorian political theorists, codes of law, and empire Sandra Den Otter
- 6. The crisis of liberal imperialism Karuna Mantena
- 7. 'Great' versus 'small' nations: scale and national greatness in Victorian political thought Georgios Varouxakis
- 8. The Victorian idea of a global state Duncan Bell
- 9. Radicalism and the extra-European-world: the case of Marx Gareth Stedman Jones
- 10. Radicalism, Gladstone, and the liberal critique of Disraelian 'imperialism' Peter Cain
- 11. The 'left' and the critique of empire c. 1865-1900: three roots of humanitarian foreign policy Gregory Claeys
- 12. Consequentialist cosmopolitanism David Weinstein.
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