Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism

by KarunaMantena (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $65.48

  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.