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Jennifer Pitts . . . [shows] that support for imperialism is not inherent to liberalism by demonstrating that prominent 18th- and early-19th-century liberals in Britain and France were deeply critical of imperialism. . .. The book is beautifully written, and the scholarship is outstanding.
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Jennifer Pitts helps us to see early-nineteenth-century imperial discourse in a new light by showing more clearly what came before.
(Michael Bentley Victorian Studies )
An impressive and even pathbreaking piece of work.
(Theodore Koditschek Journal of Modern History )
This book is a brilliantly successful attempt to account for the apparent transition from the fierce, bitter assault on the idea of empire by the writers of the second half of the eighteenth century...to the often self-congratulatory, high-minded endorsement of a new kind of imperial mission less than half a century later.... Pitt's finest pages...are on Tocqueville and the Algerian question.
(Anthony Pagden Perspectives on Politics )
This is an excellent book about late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century liberals and empire. Based on a wide range of material, which Pitts handles impressively, the book begins from a broad but workable definition of liberalism as involving a notion of individual rights and an attempt to widen social sympathies. Pitts deserves much credit for directing attention to liberalism's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and for her well-written, inspiring, and thorough analysis.
(Casper Sylvest Political Studies Review )
This [is a] thoughtful and engaging book.
(John Cramsie The Historian )
Jennifer Pitts . . . undermines the case for the reality of anti-imperialism by depicting the rise of 'imperial liberalism' as a major intellectual trend in both Britain and France between c. 1780 and 1850. She does so in a careful, acute and lucid account of the ideas on empire of Adam Smith, Burke, Bentham, the Mills, and de Tocqueville.
(Anthony Howe European History Quarterly )
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Jennifer Pitts helps us to see early-nineteenth-century imperial discourse in a new light by showing more clearly what came before.
(Michael Bentley Victorian Studies )
An impressive and even pathbreaking piece of work.
(Theodore Koditschek Journal of Modern History )
This book is a brilliantly successful attempt to account for the apparent transition from the fierce, bitter assault on the idea of empire by the writers of the second half of the eighteenth century...to the often self-congratulatory, high-minded endorsement of a new kind of imperial mission less than half a century later.... Pitt's finest pages...are on Tocqueville and the Algerian question.
(Anthony Pagden Perspectives on Politics )
This is an excellent book about late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century liberals and empire. Based on a wide range of material, which Pitts handles impressively, the book begins from a broad but workable definition of liberalism as involving a notion of individual rights and an attempt to widen social sympathies. Pitts deserves much credit for directing attention to liberalism's ability to negotiate difference in a context of empire and for her well-written, inspiring, and thorough analysis.
(Casper Sylvest Political Studies Review )
This [is a] thoughtful and engaging book.
(John Cramsie The Historian )
Jennifer Pitts . . . undermines the case for the reality of anti-imperialism by depicting the rise of 'imperial liberalism' as a major intellectual trend in both Britain and France between c. 1780 and 1850. She does so in a careful, acute and lucid account of the ideas on empire of Adam Smith, Burke, Bentham, the Mills, and de Tocqueville.
(Anthony Howe European History Quarterly )
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Exhibiting depth of research, jargon-free prose, and intellectual acumen on every page, this book is a well-balanced, seamless whole that reveals the impact of empire on the genesis of modern liberalism. It is a work of first importance not only for political theorists but also for readers in philosophy, history, and literature.
(David Armitage, Harvard University, author of "The Ideological Origins of the British Empire" )
(David Armitage, Harvard University, author of "The Ideological Origins of the British Empire" )
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