Character, Ethics and Economics (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
196
Utgivningsdatum
2018-10-23
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Routledge
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241 x 158 x 19 mm
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408 g
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1
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9781138071261

Character, Ethics and Economics

British Debates on Empire, 1860-1914

av Peter Cain
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-10-23
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This book is an examination of the concept of character as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the character talk that helped to shape elite Britons sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences, both in Britain and in the places they had conquered, that empire could be morally as well as materially justified and was a great force for good in the world. A small group of radical thinkers questioned many of the arguments of the imperialists but found it difficult to escape entirely from the sense of moral superiority that marked the latters language.
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P. J. Cain is Emeritus Professor of History at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. He is the author, with A. G. Hopkins, of British Imperialism, 1688-2015 (3rd edition 2016).

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Preface Chapter 1. Character, Virtue and British Imperialism Chapter 2. Justifying Empire: An Overview Chapter 3. Boundless Spaces: Character, 'Greater Britain' and 'Anglo-Saxondom' Chapter 4. Cromer, character and Imperialism: The British Financial Administration of Egypt, 1878-1908 Chapter 5. Character, Ordered Liberty and the Civilising Mission in India and Tropical Africa Chapter . The Civilising Mission in India and Tropical Africa: Critics and Doubters, 1860-1914 Chapter 7. The Civilising Mission as the End of Empire? C.H. Pearson and his Critics Epilogue Bibliography Index

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