Managing the world: Conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy
Hausteiner EM (2016)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2016
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Book Volume: 42
Pages Range: 570-584
Journal Issue: 4
DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2016.1161400
Abstract
The article examines a technocratic vision of empire arising in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its implications for the theorization of empires, the legitimation of large-scale political orders, and their spatial imagination. The role of the Roman model for the British in the decades after 1870 as a resource of policy advice, legitimation, and identity-building serves as a case study for analyzing the role of historical precedence for imperial elites. This analysis opens the perspective onto a notion of empire that significantly differs from the one discussed in recent debates on liberalism and empire: British political actors and observers delineate a concept of empire that is not universalist, but heterogeneous, hierarchical, and technocratic.
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Hausteiner, E.M. (2016). Managing the world: Conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy. History of European Ideas, 42(4), 570-584. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2016.1161400
MLA:
Hausteiner, Eva Marlene. "Managing the world: Conceptions of imperial rule between republicanism and technocracy." History of European Ideas 42.4 (2016): 570-584.
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