Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology 'Hugely memorable

'Hugely memorable

she finally sees her chance

containing an extensive introduction

Rebecca Little and Colleen Long

A companion website presents video clips of narrated scanned slides

Liberalism and Empire General & Introductory Anthropology 'Hugely memorableWe take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and historical progress. Confronted with unfamiliar cultures such as India, British liberals could only see them as backward or infantile. In this, liberals