The peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial Britain

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2011, Global, Area, and International Archive/University of California Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: what was liberal modernity in Britain and why was it peculiar? / Simon Gunn and James Vernon
Macaulay: a liberal historian? / Catherine Hall
Freedom rules/colonial fractures: bringing "free" labor to Trinidad in the age of revolution / James Epstein
"Free labour = latent pauperism": Marx, Mayhew, and the "reserve army of labour" in mid-nineteenth-century London / John Seed
Secrecy and liberal modernity in Victorian and Edwardian England / Tom Crook
Was there a liberal historicism? / Thomas Osborne
Habits, instincts, survivals: repetition, history, biopower / Tony Bennett
Entertainmentality! liberalizing modern pleasure in the Victorian leisure industry / Peter Bailey
Same difference? liberalism, modernity, and governance in British India / Gavin Rand
Paternalism, class, and the British path to modernity / Jon Lawrence
Government and the modern management of information, 1844-2009 / David Vincent
Liberty and ecology: resources, markets, and the British contribution to the global environmental crisis / Chris Otter
Stories we tell about liberal markets: the efficient market hypothesis and great-men narratives of change / Mary Poovey.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. (213-259) and index.

Published in
Berkeley
Series
The Berkeley series in British studies -- 1

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.510941
Library of Congress
JC574.2.G7 P43 2011, JC574.2.G7P43 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 271 p. ;
Number of pages
271

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25004513M
ISBN 13
9780984590957
LCCN
2011013521
OCLC/WorldCat
681500251

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