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Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism Karuna Mantena
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism
Karuna Mantena
Chronicles the origins, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. This title challenges the idea that Victorian empire was legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. It examines how the Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine's sociotheoretic model of 'traditional' society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire.
280 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 7, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691128160 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 240 × 22 mm · 624 g |
| Language | English |