Character, Ethics and Economics British Debates on Empire, 1860-1914 / P.J. Cain.
| Author/creator | Cain, P. J., 1941- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | ix, 195 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 1.Character, virtue and British imperialism -- 2.Justifying empire: An overview -- 3.Boundless spaces: Character, `Greater Britain' and `Anglo-Saxondom' -- 4.Cromer, character and imperialism: The British financial administration of Egypt, 1878 -- 1908 -- 5.The civilising mission in India and Africa -- 6.Civilising India and Africa: the doubters, 1860 -- 1914 -- 7.The civilising mission as the end of empire? C. H. Pearson and his critics. |
| Summary | This book is an examination of the concept of 'character' as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the `character talk' that helped to shape elite Britons' sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences, both in Britain and in the places they had conquered, that empire could be morally as well as materially justified and was a great force for good in the world. A small group of radical thinkers questioned many of the arguments of the imperialists but found it difficult to escape entirely from the sense of moral superiority that marked the latter's language. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-185) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018275361 |
| ISBN | 9781138071261 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1138071269 hardcover |
| ISBN | (ebk) |