By Duncan Bell
This wide-ranging and unique 2007 learn offers an perception into the weather of political inspiration in the course of the lifespan of what was once, at the moment, the main robust empire in heritage. A uncommon workforce of individuals explores the way thinkers in Britain theorised influential perspectives approximately empire and diplomacy, exploring subject matters reminiscent of the evolution of foreign legislations; the ways that the realm was once notionally divided into the 'civilised' and the 'barbarian'; the position of India in shaping visions of civil society; grandiose rules a few worldwide imperial kingdom; the improvement of an array of radical opinions of empire; the sorts of liberal imperialism; and the increase and fall of unfastened exchange. jointly, the chapters shape an research of political suggestion during this context; either one of the well-known (Bentham, Mill, Marx, and Hobson) and of these who, while influential on the time, are all yet forgotten at the present time.
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As other nations sought to consolidate their imperial and national markets, so too Britain once more resumed annexation of territory on the grounds of maintaining ‘a fair field and no favour’. Rather than empire being fatal to free trade, empire now seemed necessary to preserve free trade. But empire was fatal to economic internationalism. The German and French empires were designed to confer national advantages and erected clear barriers to ‘free exchange’. Imperial markets were reshaped as trade blocs, although not always exclusive ones.
Andrew Porter, pp. 624–51. For the wider geopolitical context see, Dominic Lieven, ‘Dilemmas of Empire, 1850–1918: Power, Territory, Identity,’ Journal of Contemporary History, 34 (1999), pp. 163–200. 33. There is still much debate about the state of the economy in the late nineteenth century, although it is important to remember that whether or not it was actually in depression, most contemporaries thought that it was and acted accordingly. ), The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, 2nd edn.
He also notes, however, that Engels never followed Marx along this path, remaining highly sceptical of the value of looking to the ancient past for inspiration. 61. ), Utilitarianism and Empire (Lanham, 2005). CHAPTER 2 Free trade and global order: the rise and fall of a Victorian vision Anthony Howe I. INTRODUCTION With the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 Britain entered on an unprecedented course for a Great Power. In adopting unilateral free trade, it opened its markets to all the nations of the world equally while seeking no reciprocal benefits.