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The peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial Britain, edited by Simon Gunn and James Vernon

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The peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial Britain, edited by Simon Gunn and James Vernon

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (page (213-259) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial Britain

Nature of contents

bibliography

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681500251

Responsibility statement

edited by Simon Gunn and James Vernon

Series statement

The Berkeley series in British studies, 1

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

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