Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism

Name: Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism
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By Ince, Onur Ulas

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By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain celebrated its possession of a unique "empire of liberty" that propagated the rule of private property, free trade, and free labor across the globe. The British also knew that their empire had been built by conquering overseas territories, trading slaves, and extorting tribute from other societies. Set in the context of the early-modern British Empire, Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism paints a striking picture of these tensions between the illiberal origins of capitalism and its liberal imaginations in metropolitan thought. Onur Ulas Ince combines an analysis of political economy and political theory to examine the impact of colonial economic relations on the development of liberal thought in Britain. He shows how a liberal self-image for the British Empire was constructed in the face of the systematic expropriation, exploitation, and servitude that built its transoceanic capitalist economy. The resilience of Britain's self-image was due in large part to the liberal intellectuals of empire, such as John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, and their efforts to disavow the violent transformations that propelled British colonial capitalism. Ince forcefully demonstrates that liberalism as a language of politics was elaborated in and through the political economic debates around the contested meanings of private property, market exchange, and free labor. Weaving together intellectual history, critical theory, and colonial studies, this book is a bold attempt to reconceptualize the historical relationship between capitalism, liberalism, and empire in a way that continues to resonate with our present moment.

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Number of Pages:: 230
Release Date:: 2018-04-13
Publication Date:: 2018-04-13
Publisher:: OXFORD UNIV PR
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0190637293
ISBN13:: 9780190637293
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 514 g
Height:: 16.1 cm
Width:: 24 cm
Thickness:: 1.7 cm

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