"During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. …
During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire. M…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Reordering the World -- Political Thought and Empire -- Structure of the Book -- Part I: Frames -- 2. The Dream Machine: On Liberalism and Empire -- Languages of Empire -- Intertextual E…