The peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial Britain
By: edited by Simon Gunn and James Vernon
Series: The Berkeley series in British studies -- 1
Publisher: Global, Area, and International Archive/University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780984590957
Subjects: Modern Civilization; British influences; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. (213-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: what was liberal modernity in Britain and why was it peculiar? / Simon Gunn and James Vernon; title: Macaulay: a liberal historian? / Catherine Hall; title: Freedom rules/colonial fractures: bringing "free" labor to Trinidad in the age of revolution / James Epstein; title: "Free labour = latent pauperism": Marx, Mayhew, and the "reserve army of labour" in mid-nineteenth-century London / John Seed; title: Secrecy and liberal modernity in Victorian and Edwardian England / Tom Crook; title: Was there a liberal historicism? / Thomas Osborne; title: Habits, instincts, survivals: repetition, history, biopower / Tony Bennett; title: Entertainmentality! liberalizing modern pleasure in the Victorian leisure industry / Peter Bailey; title: Same difference? liberalism, modernity, and governance in British India / Gavin Rand; title: Paternalism, class, and the British path to modernity / Jon Lawrence; title: Government and the modern management of information, 1844-2009 / David Vincent; title: Liberty and ecology: resources, markets, and the British contribution to the global environmental crisis / Chris Otter; title: Stories we tell about liberal markets: the efficient market hypothesis and great-men narratives of change / Mary Poovey.