A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
by
Uday Singh Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and...