Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Theodore Koditschek

页数:366

出版时间:2011-3-14

价格:USD 109.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521767910

图书标签:政治哲学自由主义英文原版英国新书记政治学帝国主义历史4-西欧-思想

This 2011 book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.