Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History Volume 8

by Andrew Stephen Sartori

Book Overview

While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in colonial Bengal. Liberalism in Empire explores the generative crisis in understanding property's role in the constitution of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520281691
• ISBN13: 9780520281691
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"