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Liberalism and empire : a study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought by Uday Singh Mehta is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Liberalism and empire : a study in nineteenth-century British liberal thought about?
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 experienc
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- Author
- Uday Singh Mehta
- Publisher
- The University Of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226519180
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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