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100	1		_aMantena, Karuna.
245	1	0	_aAlibis Of Empire.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2010.
264		4	_c�2010.
300			_a1 online resource (279 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aCover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule -- CHAPTER ONE The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism -- CHAPTER TWO Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory -- CHAPTER THREE Codification in the East andWest -- CHAPTER FOUR The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property -- CHAPTER FIVE Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule -- CODA Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
520			_aAlibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by liberal notions of progress and civilization. In fact, as the British Empire gained its farthest reach, its ideology was being dramatically transformed by a self-conscious rejection of the liberal model. The collapse of liberal imperialism enabled a new culturalism that stressed the dangers and difficulties of trying to "civilize" native peoples. And, hand in hand with this shift in thinking was a shift in practice toward models of indirect rule. As Mantena shows, the work of Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the center of these momentous changes. Alibis of Empire examines how Maine's sociotheoretic model of "traditional" society laid the groundwork for the culturalist logic of late empire. In charting the movement from liberal idealism, through culturalist explanation, to retroactive alibi within nineteenth-century British imperial ideology, Alibis of Empire unearths a striking and pervasive dynamic of modern empire.
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590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMantena, Karuna _tAlibis Of Empire: Henry Maine And The Ends Of Liberal Imperialism _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press,c2010
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
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