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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

ISBN: 9780691128160 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691128162 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009019884

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB006855 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015468250 Uk

Subjects--Personal Names:
Maine, Henry Sumner, 1822-1888 --Political and social views.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Imperialism.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain--Colonies.

LC Class. No.: JC359 / .M277 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 325/.22 325.32 MAN