Alibis of empire: henry maine and the ends of liberal imperialism
Auteur :
Mantena, Karuna
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691128160
Date de publication :
7 févr. 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
544 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Chronicles the origins, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. This title challenges the idea that Victorian empire was legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. It examines how the Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine's sociotheoretic model of 'traditional' society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire.