Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (Berkeley Series

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Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

While the need for a history of liberalism that goes beyond its conventional European limits is well recognized, the agrarian backwaters of the British Empire might seem an unlikely place to start. Yet specifically liberal preoccupations with property and freedom evolved as central to agrarian policy and politics in colonial Bengal.Â Liberalism in Empire explores the generative crisis in understanding propertyâ€™s role in the constitution of a liberal polity, which intersected in Bengal with a new politics of peasant independence based on practices of commodity exchange. Thus the conditions for a new kind of vernacular liberalism were created.

Andrew Sartoriâ€™s examination shows the workings of a section of liberal policy makers and agrarian leaders who insisted that norms governing agrarian social relations be premised on the property-constituting powers of labor, which opened a new conceptual space for appeals to both political economy and the normative significance of property. It is conventional to see liberalism as traveling through the space of empire with the extension of colonial institutions and intellectual networks. Sartoriâ€™s focus on the Lockeanism of agrarian discourses of property, however, allows readers to grasp how liberalism could serve as a normative framework for both a triumphant colonial capitalism and a critique of capitalism from the standpoint of peasant property.

Country	USA
Author	Andrew Stephen Sartori
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520957572
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	283
PublicationDate	2014-07-03
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2014-07-03
Studio	University of California Press

Liberalism in Empire: An Alternative History (Berkeley Series in British Studies)

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