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Zusatztext [a] stimulating and worthwhile volume Informationen zum Autor Duncan Kelly, Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge Klappentext This collection of essays provides a unique statement of the latest thinking from internationally acclaimed political theorists and intellectual historians on the ways in which the intellectual history and political thought of modern Britain have been saturated with imperial concerns. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays provides a unique statement of the latest thinking from internationally acclaimed political theorists and intellectual historians on the ways in which the intellectual history and political thought of modern Britain have been saturated with imperial concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Genealogies of Empire Lineages of Informal Imperialism The Social Question and the Problem of History after Empire Part Two: Historical Debates 'Neither Masters nor Slaves': Small States and Empires in the Long Eighteenth Century Virgil and the British Empire, 1760-1880 Edmund Burke and Empire British India as a Problem in Political Economy: Comparing James Steuart and Adam Smith Colonial Emigration, Public Policy and Tory Romanticism, 1783-1830 From Natural Science to Social Science: Race and the Language of Race-Relations in Late Victorian and Edwardian Discourse Harold Laski on the Habits of Imperialism Conclusion
