Abstract:This book is a brilliantly successful attempt to account for the apparent transition from the fierce, bitter assault on the idea of empire by the writers of the second half of the eighteenth century-from Montesquieu and Adam Smith to Benjamin Constant-to the often self-congratulatory, high-minded endorsement of a new kind of imperial mission less than half a century later, here associated most clearly with the writings of John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Book Reviews | Political Theory 574 Perspectives on Politi… Show more
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