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Alibis of Empire :

Mantena, Karuna, 1974-

Alibis of Empire : Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism / Henry Maine and the ends of liberal imperialism Karuna Mantena. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. - x, 269 p. ; 24 cm.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix;
INTRODUCTION: The Ideological Origins of Indirect Rule 1;
CHAPTER ONE: The Crisis of Liberal Imperialism 21;
CHAPTER TWO: Inventing Traditional Society: Empire and the Origins of Social Theory 56;
CHAPTER THREE: Codification in the East andWest 89;
CHAPTER FOUR: The Nineteenth-Century Debate on Property 119;
CHAPTER FIVE: Native Society in Crisis: Conceptual Foundations of Indirect Rule 148;
CODA: Liberalism and Empire Reconsidered 179;
Notes 189;
Bibliography 227;
Index 255

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Maine, Henry Sumner, 1822-1888 --Political and social views.


Imperialism.


Great Britain--Colonies.

JC359 / .M277 2010

325/.22 325.32 MAN