Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-362) and index.
Critics of empire. Adam Smith on societal development and colonial rule ; Edmund Burke's peculiar universalism -- Utilitarians and the turn to empire in Britain. Jeremy Bentham : legislator of the world? ; James and John Stuart Mill : the development of imperial liberalism in Britain -- Liberals and the turn to empire in France. The liberal volte-face in France ; Tocqueville and the Algeria question.
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