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Title Utilitarianism and empire / edited by Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 263 pages)
Contents Jeremy Bentham on slavery and the slave trade / Frederick Rosen -- Jeremy Bentham: legislator of the world? / Jennifer Pitts -- James Mill's The history of British India: the question of utilitarianism and empire / Javed Majeed -- Mill on happiness: the enduring value of a complex critique / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Liberalism's limits: Carlyle and Mill on "the negro question" / David Theo Goldberg -- Empire, race, euro-centrism: John Stuart Mill and his critics / Georgios Varouxakis -- Chairing the Jamaica Committee: J.S. Mill and the limits of colonial authority / J. Joseph Miller -- The early utilitarians, race, and empire: the state of the argument / H.S. Jones -- Imagining Darwinism / David Weinstein -- Sidgwick's racism / Bart Schultz
Summary The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current schol
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mill, James, 1773-1836. History of British India
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 -- Influence
Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832 -- Influence
SUBJECT Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832. fast (OCoLC)fst00033662
Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. fast (OCoLC)fst00030255
Subject Imperialism -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Race relations -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Utilitarianism -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Slave trade -- Government policy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
British colonies.
Colonies -- Administration.
Imperialism -- Government policy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Race relations -- Government policy.
Utilitarianism.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Schultz, Bart
Varouxakis, Georgios, 1966-
LC no. 2021678687
ISBN 9780739162231
0739162233
9780585114309
0585114307