Remaking the World by Bell, Duncan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page 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 Empire: Writing Liberal Imperialism On Settler Colonialism The Tyranny of the Canon

3. What Is Liberalism?

Constructing Liberalism: Scholarly Purposes and Interpretive Protocols A Summative Conception Liberalism before Locke Wars of Position: Consolidating Liberalism Conclusion: Conscripts of Liberalism

4. Ideologies of Empire

Imperial Imaginaries Ideologies of Justification Ideologies of Governance Ideologies of Resistance Conclusions

Part II: Themes

5. Escape Velocity: Ancient History and the Empire of Time

The Time of Empire: Narratives of Decline and Fall Harnessing the Time Spirit: On Imperial Progress The Transfiguration of Empire

Constitutional Patriotism and the Monarchy Civic Republicanism and the Colonial Order Conclusions

Salvaging Empire Remaking the People Translocalism: Expanding the Public Conclusions

8. The Project for a New Anglo Century: Race, Space, and Global Order

Empire, Nation, State: On Greater Britain The Reunion of the Race: On Anglo-America Afterlives of Empire: Anglo-America and Global Governance Millennial Dreams, or, Back to the Future

Part III: Thinkers

9. John Stuart Mill on Colonies

On Systematic Colonization: From Domestic to Global Colonial Autonomy, Character, and Civilization Melancholic Colonialism and the Pathos of Distance Conclusions

Progress, Justice, and Order: On Liberal Internationalism International Society: Green, Spencer, Sidgwick Civilization, Empire, and the Limits of International Morality Conclusions

11. John Robert Seeley and the Political Theology of Empire

Enthusiasm for Humanity On Nationalist Cosmopolitanism Expanding England: Democracy, Federalism, and the World-State Empire as Polychronicon: India and Ireland

12. Republican Imperialism: J. A. Froude and the Virtue of Empire

John Stuart Mill and Liberal Civilizing Imperialism Republican Themes in Victorian Political Thought J. A. Froude and the Pathologies of the Moderns Dreaming of Rome: The Uses of History and the Future of “Oceana” Conclusions

13. Alter Orbis: E. A. Freeman on Empire and Racial Destiny

Palimpsest: A World of Worlds The “Dark Abyss”: Freeman on Imperial Federation On Racial Solidarity

14. Democracy and Empire: J. A. Hobson, L. T. Hobhouse, and the Crisis of Liberalism

Confronting Modernity Hobhouse and the Ironies of Liberal History Hobson and the Crisis of Liberalism Conclusions

15. Coda: (De)Colonizing Liberalism

Bibliography Index