Empires without imperialism
Subtitle: Anglo-American decline and the politics of deflection
By: Jeanne Morefield
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199844104; 9780199387328; 9780199387250
Subjects: Colonies; Imperialism; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alfred Zimmern's "Oxford paradox" : displacement and Athenian nostalgia; title: Falling in love with Athens : Donald Kagan on America and Thucydides' revisionism; title: The Round Table's story of commonwealth; title: The empire whisperer : Niall Ferguson's misdirection, disavowal and the perilousness of neoliberal time; title: Empire's handyman : Jan Smuts and the politics of international holism; title: Michael Ignatieff's tragedy : just as we are, here and now; title: Conclusion : conceptual horizons and conditions of possibility : is this the Swaraj that we want?