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VICTORIAN VISIONS OF GLOBAL ORDER
This wide-ranging and original collection analyses some of the diverse
visions of global politics that circulated during a pivotal era in the
history of the British empire. A distinguished group of contributors
explore topics including: the evolution of international law; the ways
in which the world was imaginatively divided into the ‘civilised’ and
the ‘barbarian’; the role of India in shaping conceptions of civil
society; grandiose ideas about a global imperial state; the emergence
of an array of radical critiques of empire; the varieties of liberal
imperialism; and the rise and fall of the ideology of free trade.
Spanning canonical figures (including Bentham, Cobden, Marx
and Mill) as well as many important but neglected figures (including
J. R. Seeley, Henry Maine and James Fitzjames Stephens), this col-
lection is a significant contribution to the study of political thought
and intellectual history.
DUNCAN BELL is a University Lecturer in International Relations in
the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, and a
Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. He has previously published
The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order,
1860–1900 (2007) and was editor of Memory, Trauma, and World
Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present (2006).
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IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Edited by Quentin Skinner and James Tully
The books in this series discuss the emergence of intellectual traditions and of
related new disciplines. The procedures, aims and vocabularies that were gener-
ated are set in the context of the alternatives available within the contemporary
frameworks of ideas and institutions. Through detailed studies of the evolution of
such traditions, and their modification by different audiences, it is hoped that a
new picture will form of the development of ideas in t