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Informationen zum Autor Gregory Claeys is Professor of the History of Political Thought at Royal Holloway! University of London. He has edited numerous works including Modern British Utopias. c.1700-1850 (8 volumes! 1997)! Restoration and Augustan British Utopias (2000)! Late Victorian Utopias (6 volumes! 2008)! and The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature (2010). Claeys has written several studies of aspects of the Owenite socialist movement! of the French revolution debate in Britain! and of Thomas Paine's thought. Klappentext Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850 to 1920. Zusammenfassung Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought from 1850 to the First World War! Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion! shedding fresh light on nineteenth-century political thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: audi alteram partem: imperialism and the moral imagination; 1. Positivist diplomacy; 2. Socialism and empire: from Little England to Socialist Commonwealth 1850-1920; 3. Contextualising Hobson: civilisation, utility and socialist imperialism; Conclusion: the fruits of imperial scepticism.
