Imperial Sceptics

British Critics of Empire, 1850-1920

By: Gregory Claeys

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Hardcover | 26 August 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Imperial Sceptics provides a highly original analysis of the emergence of opposition to the British Empire from 1850â"1920. Departing from existing accounts, which have focused upon the Boer War and the writings of John Hobson, Gregory Claeys proposes a new chronology for the contours of resistance to imperial expansion. Claeys locates the impetus for such opposition in the late 1850s with the British followers of Auguste Comte. Tracing critical strands of anti-imperial thought through to the First World War, Claeys then scrutinises the full spectrum of socialist writings from the early 1880s onwards, revealing a fundamental division over whether a new conception of 'socialist imperialism' could appeal to the electorate and satisfy economic demands. Based upon extensive archival research, and utilising rare printed sources, Imperial Sceptics will prove a major contribution to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought, shedding new light on theories of nationalism, patriotism, the state and religion.

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Review of the hardback: 'An essential addition to the scanty existing literature on the 'other side' of the Imperial debate in Britain. It is good to see the subject moving on at last.' The Times Literary Supplement

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: audi alteram partem: imperialism and the moral imagination	p. 1
Anti-imperialism: the state of play	p. 1
The two debates in foreign and colonial policy	p. 10
Some strands of imperial skepticism	p. 21
Conclusion	p. 45
Positivist diplomacy	p. 47
Comte, humanity and empire	p. 47
Congreve and anti-imperialism	p. 58
International Policy (1866)	p. 62
India, Ireland, Egypt	p. 66
The work of Harrison, Beesly and Quin	p. 83
Universal Home Rule: carving empires into republics	p. 97
Intervention and non-intervention	p. 104
'Little England' and the analysis of empire	p. 112
Conclusion	p. 122
Socialism and empire: from Little England to socialist commonwealth, 1850-1920	p. 124
Introduction	p. 124
Marx and his legacy	p. 131
Hyndman and the SDF	p. 140
Ernest Belfort Bax: Positivism, Marxism and the nationalist controversy	p. 159
Willam Morris and the Socialist League	p. 168
Clarion call: Robert Blatchford	p. 172
The Fabians, their friends, some allies and malcontents	p. 180
The ILP: Macdonald, Hardie and some others	p. 198
Other socialist contributions to the debate	p. 208
Socialism and Little England	p. 219
Conclusion	p. 224
Contextualising Hobson: civilisation, utility and socialist imperialism	p. 235
The formation of Hobson's critique of capitalist imperialism, 1894-1902	p. 236
Imperialism. A Study: civilisation and exploitation justified	p. 245
Hobson as socialist imperialist	p. 260
Hobson, Positivism and the ethics of humanity	p. 271
Conclusion	p. 281
Conclusion: the fruits of imperial scepticism: more sovereignty and less	p. 282
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 327
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