SOURCE / edition
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
About this source
The University of Chicago Press record and synopsis for Mehta's 1999 book.
CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 2
Where this source is used
The selected evidence supports British-imperial and gender critiques but does not establish comparable claims about racial and class exclusion or supply accounts by excluded people.
- context · publisher synopsis, paragraphs 1–2
Mehta argues that nineteenth-century British liberals made imperial rule intelligible by placing colonized peoples within a staged account of human development.
- supports · publisher synopsis, paragraphs 1–2