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Author: Jeanne Morefield (Associate Professor of Politics, Associate Professor of Politics, Whitman College)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 24.10cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 15.90cm
Weight: 0.641kg
ISBN: 9780199387328
ISBN 10: 019938732
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 15 May 2014
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Jeanne Morefield documents the unexpected and troubling similarities between how British intellectuals viewed their waning empire and how we Americans often think about the uses of our hegemony, even or especially when we fear it is now in decline. Making the currency of the past unmistakable for political theorists, intellectual historians, and engaged citizens alike, this provocative book throws down the gauntlet to those who would turn their eyes from-or explain away-harsh realities of power and violence in the present. Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
Jeanne Morefield documents the unexpected and troubling similarities between how British intellectuals viewed their waning empire and how we Americans often think about the uses of our hegemony, even or especially when we fear it is now in decline. Making the currency of the past unmistakable for political theorists, intellectual historians, and engaged citizens alike, this provocative book throws down the gauntlet to those who would turn their eyes from-or explain away-harsh realities of power and violence in the present. --Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History Morefield gives us a superb portrait of the 'deflective' politics that have long characterized liberal imperialism. She lays bare the intellectual strategies that liberals from Jan Smuts to Michael Ignatieff have used to reconcile their declared commitment to freedom with the domination of other societies, and to shield democratic powers from the very critical inquiry they claim is essential to democracy. Rich with historical detail and sharp analysis, this is an unsettling and important book. --Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago In this erudite and original historical and contemporary study, Jeanne Morefield not only exposes the rhetorical strategies of deflection employed by theorists to legitimate neo-liberal imperialism today. She also shows the deep roots of these strategies in nineteenth and early twentieth century liberalism. --James Tully, University of Victoria
Jeanne Morefield's Empires without Imperialism: The Late Modern Politics of Deflection makes a singularly inspired contribution to the field, richly complex in its historical scholarship, sharply polemical (without being uncharitable), and most importantly, highly original in its subject, approach and tenor. Inder S. Marwah, Contemporary Political Theory Jeanne Morefield documents the unexpected and troubling similarities between how British intellectuals viewed their waning empire and how we Americans often think about the uses of our hegemony, even or especially when we fear it is now in decline. Making the currency of the past unmistakable for political theorists, intellectual historians, and engaged citizens alike, this provocative book throws down the gauntlet to those who would turn their eyes from-or explain away-harsh realities of power and violence in the present. Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
Author Information
Jeanne Morefield is Associate Professor of Politics, Whitman College; author of Covenants without Swords (Princeton UP, 2005)
