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Alibis of Empire : Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism / Karuna Mantena.

By: Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.Description: x, 269 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691128160 : pb
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 325.32 MAN
Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix; INTRODUCTION: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule 1; CHAPTER ONE: The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism 21; CHAPTER TWO: Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory 56; CHAPTER THREE: Codification in the East andWest 89; CHAPTER FOUR: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property 119; CHAPTER FIVE: Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule 148; CODA: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered 179; Notes 189; Bibliography 227; Index 255
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix;
INTRODUCTION: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule 1;
CHAPTER ONE: The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism 21;
CHAPTER TWO: Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory 56;
CHAPTER THREE: Codification in the East andWest 89;
CHAPTER FOUR: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property 119;
CHAPTER FIVE: Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule 148;
CODA: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered 179;
Notes 189;
Bibliography 227;
Index 255