TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitts,Jennifer
TI  - A turn to empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and France 
SN  - 9781400826636
AV  - JC359 .P54 2005eb
U1  - 325/.341/01 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Political science
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - France
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Impérialisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Libéralisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - British colonies
KW  - fast
KW  - French colonies
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-362) and index; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Liberalism, Pluralism, and Empire; Scope and Summary; Historical Contexts; Part 1: Critics Of Empire; Chapter 2: Adam Smith on Societal Development and Colonial Rule; Chapter 3: Edmund Burke's Peculiar Universalism; Part 2: Utilitarians And The Turn To Empire In Britain; Chapter 4: Jeremy Bentham: Legislator of the World?; Chapter 5: James and John Stuart Mill: The Development of Imperial Liberalism in Britain; Part 3: Liberals And The Turn To Empire In France; Chapter 6: The Liberal Volte-Face in France; Chapter 7: Tocqueville and the Algeria QuestionChapter 8: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
N2  - A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling the turn of the nineteenth century. As Jennifer Pitts shows in A Turn to Empire, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and Jeremy Bentham were among many at the start of this period to criticize European empires as unjust as well as politically and economically disastrous for the conquering nations. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, the most prominent British and French liberal thinkers, including John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville, vigorously supported the conquest of non-European peoples. Pitts
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