Liberalism in empire : an alternative history / Andrew Sartori.
Material type: TextSeries: Berkeley series in British studies ; 8.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520957572
- 0520957571
- 1306802342
- 9781306802345
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History
- Imperialism -- History
- Liberalism -- History
- Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Histoire
- Impérialisme -- Histoire
- Libéralisme -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- British colonies
- Imperialism
- Liberalism
- Liberalismus
- Imperialismus
- 320.5109171/241 23
- DA16
- NQ 9410
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
How to write a history of liberalism? -- The great rent case -- Custom and the crisis of Victorian liberalism -- An agrarian civil society? -- Peasant property and Muslim freedom.
Print version record.
While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in colonial Bengal. Liberalism in Empire explores the generative crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange. Thus the conditions for a new kind of vernacular liberalism were created. Andrew Sartori's examination shows the workings of a section of liberal policy makers and agrarian leaders who insisted that norms governing agrarian social relations be premised on the property-constituting powers of labor, which opened a new conceptual space for appeals to both political economy and the normative significance of property. It is conventional to see liberalism as traveling through the space of empire with the extension of colonial institutions and intellectual networks. Sartori's focus on the Lockeanism of agrarian discourses of property, however, allows readers to grasp how liberalism could serve as a normative framework for both a triumphant colonial capitalism and a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of peasant property.
English.
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