Utilitarianism and empire

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The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by l…

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Title Statements

Full title :Utilitarianism and empire / edited by Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2005.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Lexington Books
Place of Publication:Lanham, Md
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 263 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780739162231, 0739162233, 9780585114309, 0585114307
oclc:on1250590745
LC Classification:DA16
Dewey Decimal:325/.32/0941

Jeremy Bentham on slavery and the slave trade / Frederick Rosen -- Jeremy Bentham: legislator of the world? / Jennifer Pitts -- James Mill's The history of British India: the question of utilitarianism and empire / Javed Majeed -- Mill on happiness: the enduring value of a complex critique / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Liberalism's limits: Carlyle and Mill on "the negro question" / David Theo Goldberg -- Empire, race, euro-centrism: John Stuart Mill and his critics / Georgios Varouxakis -- Chairing the Jamaica Committee: J.S. Mill and the limits of colonial authority / J. Joseph Miller -- The early utilitarians, race, and empire: the state of the argument / H.S. Jones -- Imagining Darwinism / David Weinstein -- Sidgwick's racism / Bart Schultz.

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Bentham, Jeremy British colonies Colonies -- Administration Esclaves -- Commerce -- 19e siècle. -- … Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- 19e sièc… Great Britain Great Britain -- Colonies -- 19th centu… History Imperialism -- Government policy Imperialism -- Government policy -- 19t… Impérialisme -- Politique gouvernementa… Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Mill, James Mill, John Stuart Race relations -- Government policy Race relations -- Government policy -- … Relations raciales -- Politique gouvern… Slave trade -- Government policy -- 19t… utilitarianism Utilitarianism -- History -- 19th centu…