The idea of greater Britain : empire and the future of world order, 1860-1900 /
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Building Greater Britain ; The Boundaries of Imperial Discourse: Imagining Greater Britain ; Greater Britain and Imperial Federation: Variations on a Theme ; Empire and Ideology ; Outline of the Book
- Chapter 2 Global Competition and Democracy ; Balances of Power: Global Threats and Imperial Responses ; Democracy and the Moral Economy of Empire ; Emigration and the Social Question ; Radical Visions of Greater Britain
- Chapter 3 Time, Space, Empire ; "The Eternal Law": Empire and the Vicissitudes of Distance ; Nature in Flux, c.1830-1870 ; Imperial Political Thought in the Age of Scientific Utopianism, c.1870-1900 ; Remaking the Global Political Imagination
- Chapter 4 Empire, Nation, State ; The Turn to Federalism Statehood and Empire ; J. R. Seeley and the "World-State" ; Race and Nation
- Chapter 5 The Politics of the Constitution ; The Virtues of Vagueness ; Imperial Patriotism and the Constitution ; Civic Imperialism ; J. A. Froude and the "Commonwealth of Oceana"
- Chapter 6 The Apostle of Unity ; The Love of Humanity: Towards a New "Political Religion" ; The Political Theology of Nationalist Cosmopolitanism ; The Darkening of an English Mind ; On the Necessity of Imperial Federation ; The Ambiguities of Unity: India and Ireland
- Chapter 7 The Prophet of Righteousness ; Colonial Emancipation and the "Glorious Future" of the Anglo-Saxon Race ; Empire and Character ; Religion and Liberty ; India, Ireland, and the Necessity of Despotism
- Chapter 8 From Ancient to Modern ; The Functions of the Ancients ; The End of Empire: Two Models ; On Novelty ; Back to the Future
- Chapter 9 Envisioning America ; The Model of the Future: America as Template ; Size Matters: America as Competitor ; Peace and Justice: The Benefits of Hegemony ; Through a Glass, Darkly: America as Lesson ; America, Empire, and Racial Unity
- Chapter 10 Conclusion: Lineages of Greater Britain ; Global Consciousness and the Imperial Imagination ; Reverberations: Some Afterlives of Greater Britain