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Informationen zum Autor Duncan Bell is University Lecturer in International Relations in the Centre of International Studies! University of Cambridge! and Fellow! Christ's College. Klappentext Victorian Visions of Global Order explores many of the most important and influential ways that political thinkers in Britain imagined and theorised empire and international relations during the nineteenth century. A distinguished group of contributors examines a wide variety of perspectives! spanning law! political economy! social and political theory! historical writing! and debates in public policy! analysing the political thinking of both the famous (Bentham! Mill! Marx! and Hobson) and of those who! whiel influential at the time! are all but forgotten today. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
