Ethical Empire?: India Reformism and the Critique of Colonial Misgovernment

ISBN-13: 9781009321068 / Angielski

Zak Leonard

Opis

This interdisciplinary work, which traces the formation of global reformist networks and reconceptualizes anti-colonial critique, will appeal to students of history and political science.

Recenzje

'In Ethical Empire, Zak Leonard masterfully excavates the ethics of empire as framed and understood by its reformist critics during British India's nineteenth- century heyday. With both empathy and sophistication, Leonard examines reformers on their own terms, in their own times. What emerges is a richly woven tapestry of debate upon which the promises and shortcomings of the British Empire in India - as well as at home - were imagined and litigated. This is a must- read for any serious student of empire and the ethical conundrums its opponents contended with.' Ben Hopkins, Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The origins of reform: pressure-group rivalries and the conservationist turn; 2. 'A blot on English justice': India reformism and the rhetoric of virtual slavery; 3. Public works, publicity, and the search for a new state-idea; 4. Reformist collaboration and the formation of an imperial civil society; 5. Anomalous annexations: debating the law of nations and princely sovereignty; 6. Politicizing decline: reformist remedies for deindustrialization; 7. Radical reformism and the challenge of capitalist complacency; Epilogue: integrating the empire.